The Herald and The Lantern

Wednesday, November M, H80

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Searching for Gifted Students

Many Were Minimum Readers

ERMA - U your Junior or senior high schoolsge i-hild gifted or talented? That's s question the Lower C*pe May Regional School District is attempting to answer, apparently for the purpose of establishing a program for such students in the system which includes the txiwer Cape May Regional High School and Richard

M. Tettelman Junior high

school.

IN ITS NOVEMBER newsletter, the Lower Regional Board of Education calls upon parents to fill out a survey and return it to schools superintendent E.R. Keller. The one-page, 18item survey seeks basic information from parents concerning their children.

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"The Lower Cape May Regional School District is attempting to Identify those students who would benefit from special prngrama for the gifted and talented,"' the newsletter

notes

IT ALSO ASKS interested parents to come forward If they would be Interested tn aervlng on an advisory committee for gifted and talented studenU. Such parents are asked to contact Mr. Keller (8*4-3475 ext. 63) purpose of the advisory committee would be to review the district's present activities, ascertain what needs aren't being met, suggest priorities, and report their tindings to the school

board.

‘Nutcracker’ Slated Dec. 7 MAYS LANDING - The Mt. Laurel Regional Ballet Company will present Tchaikovsky's "Nutcracker" Sunday, Dec. 7. at Atlantic Community College. The performances will begin at 2 and 7 p.m. in the auditorium of Walter E. Edge Hall on the Mays landing campus. THE COMPANY, directed by Lorraine McAdams, will expand to a total of 75 dancers for this presentation of the classic holiday fantasy.

ERMA - Almost onequarter of the freshman at Lower Cape May Regional High School scored at or below the state minimum score In reading in the statewide Minimum Basic Skills test given to all ninth and eleventh grade students last March. Almost one-fifth tested at or below the minimum in

math

That’s not news, but the overall results were reiterated in the newsletter from the Lower Cape may Regional Board of Education that went out to parents last week. MBS TEST results of the individual freshmen and juniors were released last June with their final report

cards.

The Regional newsletter notes that the information on an individual basis in available for the student’s parents thru the high school guidance office, as are the general results attained by the two grades tested. According to the newsletter: 57th Wedding Anniversary AVALON - Mr. and Mrs. Ch&rles Boetlinger of 24th Street, will celebrate their 75th wedding anniversary Dec. 1. The Boettingers have one son and three daughters, 14 • grandchildren and 10 grea t-grandchildren.

••THIS YEAR 78.1 per cent of our ninth grade pupils scored above the state minimum score in reading; 79.2 per cent scored above the state minimum in computation StudenU in grade eleven did better; 89.2 per cent scored above state minimum in reading, and 56.7 per cent scored above

in compuUtlon.

The converse means that: THIS YEAR 23l per cent of the Regional freshmen scored at or below the state minimum score in reading; 20.8 per cent scored at or below the state minimum in math. The percentage of the junior class members who scored at or below the state minimum was 10.8 in reading and 13.3 in math.

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