https://www.realcty.org/index.php?title=An_open_letter_from_the_editor&feed=atom&action=historyAn open letter from the editor - Revision history2024-03-28T23:17:59ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.34.1https://www.realcty.org/index.php?title=An_open_letter_from_the_editor&diff=35406&oldid=prevMemoriesonfilm: redundant period2015-12-29T02:58:23Z<p>redundant period</p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It's really a shame that so few compelling alternatives to CTY exist (certainly none of CTY's scale); but they will continue not to exist unless you—parents, students, staff, and anyone invested in the talent of youth—urge them into existence. This is why I ask you to consider alternatives to CTY for your or your children's next summer, or for your financial support. Look for the fledgling programs which you think offer not merely the best classroom environment, but the freest, most diverse environments in which to learn and grow and self-express, especially through interaction with peers. At the very least, before committing anything to CTY—your time, your children's time, or your support—call up and remind the Center for Talented Youth of the environment these youth deserve: an environment where they are free to learn and free to fully express their growing confidence and creativity. Remind the program's administrators that they need to ''trust'' the talents of the coming generations; to trust in the kindness and goodness of the students who attend their programs, and the ability of those students to teach the generations of students to come.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It's really a shame that so few compelling alternatives to CTY exist (certainly none of CTY's scale); but they will continue not to exist unless you—parents, students, staff, and anyone invested in the talent of youth—urge them into existence. This is why I ask you to consider alternatives to CTY for your or your children's next summer, or for your financial support. Look for the fledgling programs which you think offer not merely the best classroom environment, but the freest, most diverse environments in which to learn and grow and self-express, especially through interaction with peers. At the very least, before committing anything to CTY—your time, your children's time, or your support—call up and remind the Center for Talented Youth of the environment these youth deserve: an environment where they are free to learn and free to fully express their growing confidence and creativity. Remind the program's administrators that they need to ''trust'' the talents of the coming generations; to trust in the kindness and goodness of the students who attend their programs, and the ability of those students to teach the generations of students to come.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There is no better nourishment for talented youth than the companionship of peers; of developing close bonds with like minds. The first aim of any program like CTY should be to provide as many channels as possible for learning through companionship and community. I implore you, whatever you do, not to tolerate anything less for your children or for yourselves. Whether it be through CTY or through an even better service, please, seek out—no, demand!—the programs, places, or institutions most willing to support every mode of learning<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">.</del>. Limits must not be placed on the opportunities for talented youth to learn and grow. Doing so is a disservice to the generations of gifted minds to come.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There is no better nourishment for talented youth than the companionship of peers; of developing close bonds with like minds. The first aim of any program like CTY should be to provide as many channels as possible for learning through companionship and community. I implore you, whatever you do, not to tolerate anything less for your children or for yourselves. Whether it be through CTY or through an even better service, please, seek out—no, demand!—the programs, places, or institutions most willing to support every mode of learning. Limits must not be placed on the opportunities for talented youth to learn and grow. Doing so is a disservice to the generations of gifted minds to come.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Memoriesonfilmhttps://www.realcty.org/index.php?title=An_open_letter_from_the_editor&diff=33806&oldid=prevMemoriesonfilm at 03:02, 12 August 20152015-08-12T03:02:43Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>These are some of the lessons I learned through my experience at CTY. I was smart before I went to CTY, just like all the students who qualify, and my four years at CTY did not make me smarter. What it did was make me better. I learned how to laugh and speak openly and recognize the good in other people. I learned how to communicate and how to empathize. I learned how the best experiences come by letting people get to know you and by trusting the people who support you. I learned how to pursue the things that made me happy and to take control of how I lived my life.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>These are some of the lessons I learned through my experience at CTY. I was smart before I went to CTY, just like all the students who qualify, and my four years at CTY did not make me smarter. What it did was make me better. I learned how to laugh and speak openly and recognize the good in other people. I learned how to communicate and how to empathize. I learned how the best experiences come by letting people get to know you and by trusting the people who support you. I learned how to pursue the things that made me happy and to take control of how I lived my life.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It is because of this—of what CTY was able to provide me and my peers in the past—that I ask the parents, students, potential donors, and any others looking into the CTY program for future years to consider other options for yourselves or your children apart from CTY, or else to demand first that the program's leadership elevate CTY again to the high standards of its <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">past</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It is because of this—of what CTY was able to provide me and my peers in the past—that I ask the parents, students, potential donors, and any others looking into the CTY program for future years to consider other options for yourselves or your children apart from CTY, or else to demand first that the program's leadership elevate CTY again to the high standards of its <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">earlier days</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The creativity, confidence, and compassion for one another that CTY students can come to demonstrate is immense and incredible. The students, especially the older students who have undergone significant growth, are thus very capable role models for younger generations. The cross-dressing tradition is a great example of this. The particular choice of expression is secondary to the point; rather, the point is that the students independently ''chose'', and continue to choose, to express themselves in this manner as a display of creativity, confidence, or simply comfort with themselves and their identities. Seeing other students express themselves so freely and confidently is of great benefit to the younger generations. There is little that makes you desire more to step out of your shell than to see people like you who have succeeded in doing so.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The creativity, confidence, and compassion for one another that CTY students can come to demonstrate is immense and incredible. The students, especially the older students who have undergone significant growth, are thus very capable role models for younger generations. The cross-dressing tradition is a great example of this. The particular choice of expression is secondary to the point; rather, the point is that the students independently ''chose'', and continue to choose, to express themselves in this manner as a display of creativity, confidence, or simply comfort with themselves and their identities. Seeing other students express themselves so freely and confidently is of great benefit to the younger generations. There is little that makes you desire more to step out of your shell than to see people like you who have succeeded in doing so.</div></td></tr>
</table>Memoriesonfilmhttps://www.realcty.org/index.php?title=An_open_letter_from_the_editor&diff=33805&oldid=prevMemoriesonfilm at 03:02, 12 August 20152015-08-12T03:02:08Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>My name is Max Wang; I'm a former CTY student, having attended the program from 2005-2008, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">and </del>the editor and maintainer of RealCTY. I'd like to ask for a few minutes of your time today so that I can share with you some of my thoughts about, and both my joy and my sorrow for, the CTY program. I implore you to read my words in full, and I sincerely hope they are of some help or use to you, in some shape or form.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>My name is Max Wang; I'm a former CTY student, having attended the program from 2005-2008, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">as well as </ins>the editor and maintainer of RealCTY. I'd like to ask for a few minutes of your time today so that I can share with you some of my thoughts about, and both my joy and my sorrow for, the CTY program. I implore you to read my words in full, and I sincerely hope they are of some help or use to you, in some shape or form.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As the longtime editor and maintainer of this unofficial wiki on the student culture at the Center for Talented Youth (CTY), and as a former, four-year student of the program, I have had the very special opportunity and privilege to examine and understand firsthand the ways in which CTY has served the many kids, teenagers, and young adults who attend its summer program each year. CTY has a rich history and is a very special place in the hearts of many of its former students. Despite its summer sessions occurring only twice a year, and each lasting only nineteen days, the program attracted flocks of new and returning students year after year, who were reliably greeted by a pervasive and nurturing social and developmental culture, brought about by the students' collective community.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>As the longtime editor and maintainer of this unofficial wiki on the student culture at the Center for Talented Youth (CTY), and as a former, four-year student of the program, I have had the very special opportunity and privilege to examine and understand firsthand the ways in which CTY has served the many kids, teenagers, and young adults who attend its summer program each year. CTY has a rich history and is a very special place in the hearts of many of its former students. Despite its summer sessions occurring only twice a year, and each lasting only nineteen days, the program attracted flocks of new and returning students year after year, who were reliably greeted by a pervasive and nurturing social and developmental culture, brought about by the students' collective community.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Memoriesonfilmhttps://www.realcty.org/index.php?title=An_open_letter_from_the_editor&diff=33802&oldid=prevMemoriesonfilm at 02:59, 12 August 20152015-08-12T02:59:29Z<p></p>
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</table>Memoriesonfilmhttps://www.realcty.org/index.php?title=An_open_letter_from_the_editor&diff=33801&oldid=prevMemoriesonfilm at 02:59, 12 August 20152015-08-12T02:59:00Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><div style="<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">text-indent:2em;</del>width:800px"></div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><div style="width:800px"></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Dear CTYers, parents, faculty, administration, former students, potential donors, and especially those who are considering the CTY program for future years,</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Dear CTYers, parents, faculty, administration, former students, potential donors, and especially those who are considering the CTY program for future years,</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2"> </td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><div style="text-indent:2em;width:800px"></ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>My name is Max Wang; I'm a former CTY student, having attended the program from 2005-2008, and the editor and maintainer of RealCTY. I'd like to ask for a few minutes of your time today so that I can share with you some of my thoughts about, and both my joy and my sorrow for, the CTY program. I implore you to read my words in full, and I sincerely hope they are of some help or use to you, in some shape or form.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>My name is Max Wang; I'm a former CTY student, having attended the program from 2005-2008, and the editor and maintainer of RealCTY. I'd like to ask for a few minutes of your time today so that I can share with you some of my thoughts about, and both my joy and my sorrow for, the CTY program. I implore you to read my words in full, and I sincerely hope they are of some help or use to you, in some shape or form.</div></td></tr>
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</table>Memoriesonfilmhttps://www.realcty.org/index.php?title=An_open_letter_from_the_editor&diff=33800&oldid=prevMemoriesonfilm at 02:58, 12 August 20152015-08-12T02:58:42Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><div style="text-indent:2em;width:800px"></del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>My name is Max Wang; I'm a former CTY student, having attended the program from 2005-2008, and the editor and maintainer of RealCTY. I'd like to ask for a few minutes of your time today so that I can share with you some of my thoughts about, and both my joy and my sorrow for, the CTY program. I implore you to read my words in full, and I sincerely hope they are of some help or use to you, in some shape or form.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>My name is Max Wang; I'm a former CTY student, having attended the program from 2005-2008, and the editor and maintainer of RealCTY. I'd like to ask for a few minutes of your time today so that I can share with you some of my thoughts about, and both my joy and my sorrow for, the CTY program. I implore you to read my words in full, and I sincerely hope they are of some help or use to you, in some shape or form.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>These are some of the lessons I learned through my experience at CTY. I was smart before I went to CTY, just like all the students who qualify, and my four years at CTY did not make me smarter. What it did was make me better. I learned how to laugh and speak openly and recognize the good in other people. I learned how to communicate and how to empathize. I learned how the best experiences come by letting people get to know you and by trusting the people who support you. I learned how to pursue the things that made me happy and to take control of how I lived my life.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>These are some of the lessons I learned through my experience at CTY. I was smart before I went to CTY, just like all the students who qualify, and my four years at CTY did not make me smarter. What it did was make me better. I learned how to laugh and speak openly and recognize the good in other people. I learned how to communicate and how to empathize. I learned how the best experiences come by letting people get to know you and by trusting the people who support you. I learned how to pursue the things that made me happy and to take control of how I lived my life.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It is because of this—of what CTY was able to provide me and my peers in the past—that I ask the parents, students, and any others looking into the CTY program for future years to consider other options for yourselves or your children apart from CTY.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It is because of this—of what CTY was able to provide me and my peers in the past—that I ask the parents, students<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, potential donors</ins>, and any others looking into the CTY program for future years to consider other options for yourselves or your children apart from CTY<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, or else to demand first that the program's leadership elevate CTY again to the high standards of its past</ins>.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"></td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The creativity, confidence, and compassion for one another that CTY students can come to demonstrate is immense and incredible. The students, especially the older students who have undergone significant growth, are thus very capable role models for younger generations. The cross-dressing tradition is a great example of this. The particular choice of expression is secondary to the point; rather, the point is that the students independently ''chose'', and continue to choose, to express themselves in this manner as a display of creativity, confidence, or simply comfort with themselves and their identities. Seeing other students express themselves so freely and confidently is of great benefit to the younger generations. There is little that makes you desire more to step out of your shell than to see people like you who have succeeded in doing so.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The creativity, confidence, and compassion for one another that CTY students can come to demonstrate is immense and incredible. The students, especially the older students who have undergone significant growth, are thus very capable role models for younger generations. The cross-dressing tradition is a great example of this. The particular choice of expression is secondary to the point; rather, the point is that the students independently ''chose'', and continue to choose, to express themselves in this manner as a display of creativity, confidence, or simply comfort with themselves and their identities. Seeing other students express themselves so freely and confidently is of great benefit to the younger generations. There is little that makes you desire more to step out of your shell than to see people like you who have succeeded in doing so.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Indeed, public and private schools have, since CTY's inception, become much better at serving the academic, in-classroom needs of gifted youth. If CTY continues to limit the diversity of opportunities for learning—and especially those for learning from peers—then it loses its sparkle. It becomes no more special than any decent high school, for which most potential CTY students will be headed anyway. It's not that it's become bad: I'm confident that CTY is still much better in many or most ways than the typical sixth through ninth grade classroom experience. Rather, the problem is that by restricting students' self-expression and interaction with peers, the Center for Talented Youth falls sadly short of its potential. CTY has essentially no competing alternatives. As such, by failing to offer the broadening, free environment of learning that it ''could'' offer, it does a disservice to its current and future students.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Indeed, public and private schools have, since CTY's inception, become much better at serving the academic, in-classroom needs of gifted youth. If CTY continues to limit the diversity of opportunities for learning—and especially those for learning from peers—then it loses its sparkle. It becomes no more special than any decent high school, for which most potential CTY students will be headed anyway. It's not that it's become bad: I'm confident that CTY is still much better in many or most ways than the typical sixth through ninth grade classroom experience. Rather, the problem is that by restricting students' self-expression and interaction with peers, the Center for Talented Youth falls sadly short of its potential. CTY has essentially no competing alternatives. As such, by failing to offer the broadening, free environment of learning that it ''could'' offer, it does a disservice to its current and future students.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It's really a shame that so few compelling alternatives to CTY exist (certainly none of CTY's scale); but they will continue not to exist unless you—parents, students, staff, and anyone invested in the talent of youth—urge them into existence. This is why I ask you to consider alternatives to CTY for your or your children's next summer. Look for the fledgling programs which you think offer not merely the best classroom environment, but the freest, most diverse environments in which to learn and grow and self-express, especially through interaction with peers. At the very least, <del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">call </del>up and remind the Center for Talented Youth of the environment these youth deserve: an environment where they are free to learn and free to fully express their growing confidence and creativity. Remind the program's administrators that they need to ''trust'' the talents of the coming generations; to trust in the kindness and goodness of the students who attend their programs, and the ability of those students to teach the generations of students to come.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>It's really a shame that so few compelling alternatives to CTY exist (certainly none of CTY's scale); but they will continue not to exist unless you—parents, students, staff, and anyone invested in the talent of youth—urge them into existence. This is why I ask you to consider alternatives to CTY for your or your children's next summer<ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, or for your financial support</ins>. Look for the fledgling programs which you think offer not merely the best classroom environment, but the freest, most diverse environments in which to learn and grow and self-express, especially through interaction with peers. At the very least, <ins class="diffchange diffchange-inline">before committing anything to CTY—your time, your children's time, or your support—call </ins>up and remind the Center for Talented Youth of the environment these youth deserve: an environment where they are free to learn and free to fully express their growing confidence and creativity. Remind the program's administrators that they need to ''trust'' the talents of the coming generations; to trust in the kindness and goodness of the students who attend their programs, and the ability of those students to teach the generations of students to come.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There is no better nourishment for talented youth than the companionship of peers; of developing close bonds with like minds. The first aim of any program like CTY should be to provide as many channels as possible for learning through companionship and community. I implore you, whatever you do, not to tolerate anything less for your children or for yourselves. Whether it be through CTY or through an even better service, please, seek out—no, demand!—the programs, places, or institutions most willing to support every mode of learning.. Limits must not be placed on the opportunities for talented youth to learn and grow. Doing so is a disservice to the generations of gifted minds to come.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'> </td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #222; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>There is no better nourishment for talented youth than the companionship of peers; of developing close bonds with like minds. The first aim of any program like CTY should be to provide as many channels as possible for learning through companionship and community. I implore you, whatever you do, not to tolerate anything less for your children or for yourselves. Whether it be through CTY or through an even better service, please, seek out—no, demand!—the programs, places, or institutions most willing to support every mode of learning.. Limits must not be placed on the opportunities for talented youth to learn and grow. Doing so is a disservice to the generations of gifted minds to come.</div></td></tr>
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