Maria Kennedy
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439 appearances
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first heard Mar 2022
last heard Mar 2022
Maria Kennedy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'm I'm a proud mum.
But he's really try- I mean
Amazing in mathematics.
He was also amazing in science.
Read, like I said, at the age of three, but couldn't get into the gifted program in the Caribbean because his writing skills weren't at the same level.
Now, his writing skills weren't at the same level because he hated to write.
It was something that he found tedious, didn't interest him, and he did the minimum required.
And you know, you just couldn't.
Encourage him to do it any other way because of the way that it did the boy didn't want to write a five, you know, the five-paragraph essay with the da-da-da-da-da-da.
It's not that he can't do it, the child's just uh just completed a master's degree in human resources.
So he can do it, but it was just at the time this is not what he wanted to do.
Because he didn't want to do that, because he didn't perform at the level they required, he couldn't.
Get the gifted definition.
And for me as an educator, that was frustrating.
I was desperately trying to convince people that a child shouldn't have to perform in three areas to be deemed as gifted.
They should be able to be gifted in whatever they're gifted in, right?
So whether it they're athletically gifted, artistically gifted, musically gifted, academically gifted.
I'm going, we need to broaden the scope of the word gifted and really explore where these children are at, so then that we can use those gifts and talents and educate using those strengths.
But that was another battle that I fought in the Caribbean.
So East Coast, similar problems.
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