May 12th, 2022: Aiming for Excellence

What happens to the commitment to excellence?

Somehow we have gotten confused between inequality and gifted essence.

Some of us are far more talented than others in a specific discipline of study.

It is nothing wrong with pursuing our talents with more challenging opportunities.

It is unwise to consider advanced classes as inequity in education.

Having an equal opportunity does not mean treating everyone with the same intelligent dimension.

After all, we research medical specialists before we pick one for advice.

Not doing that is like rolling a dice.

We invite athletes to training camp and expect that they give their best.

However, we won't keep everyone on by keeping the best and sending home the rest.

When we don't have pathways for gifted people to develop their talents,

we will head towards mediocrity and destroy various future advancements.

We won't be able to have compassion without growth.

We won't have that growth by denying talented people a chance to achieve their goals.

Competition does not erase the needed equality.

It elevates the meaning of being equal while celebrating excellency.

It is a pity that Rhode Island School District has decided to cancel honors classes.

It is a misguided decision while stating they want to ensure equality of education for the masses.

1 Corinthians 9: 24-27

"Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it. Every athlete exercises self-control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable. So I do not run aimlessly; I do not box as one beating the air. But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified."

1 Peter 2: 9

"But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light."