I was a multi-sport jock and playing dodgeball in school meant I could use my size and athletic ability to pummel my less physically-gifted classmates before ultimately battling my fellow jocks for dodgeball supremacy.
I mean that I was peculiarly fitted to "get the good out of" the convent and the Seminary, not because I was more gifted or cleverer than my classmates but because, thanks to Garfield's plebeian incentives, I was an intellectual by the time I reached Annie Wright.
In light of the intense demands on gifted students in conservatories -- where classmates are rivals and the relentless need to advance through competition seems to reward not sensitive artists but nerves-of-steel players -- many are surprised by the supportive dynamic at Pianofest.
Walker was always several inches shorter than his classmates, but he was gifted with great quickness.
Svetlana, a fifth grader at Public School 216, sang in the chorus and was a gifted student and a good friend, classmates recalled.
The Mitt Romney classmates knew then was a gifted fix-it man, attuned to the particulars of every situation he examined and eager to deliver what customers wanted.
A particular problem not addressed by most American schools is that our gifted youth are told to wait for their classmates to catch up with them and not to rush their learning.
Bauman was a gifted musician in junior high (as was his classmate Robert Kopelson, now a concert pianist).
She said it is hard to imagine her son connecting socially with new classmates as well as he has connected with his gifted program peers, with whom he can discuss everything from the density of the sun to the logistics of atomic energy to Pokemon game strategy.
Vice Adm. Timothy J. Keating, Captain Burlingame's classmate at the United States Naval Academy, said Captain Burlingame had been a gifted aviator.
The plot revolves around a gifted 11-year-old named Henry, played by Jaeden Lieberher, who sets out to save his classmate and next-door neighbor Christina (Ziegler), from her abusive stepfather with the help of his mother (Naomi Watts).
