You are used to hearing about the city of Sderot in the news, almost always in the same dubious contexts of missiles and disasters. A twist in the plot is currently making a new center for the gifted and outstanding, which will open next week in the city.
It turns out that there are a significant cadre of 33 students who were diagnosed as gifted out of a total of 39 in the western Negev region, and another 63 outstanding. For years, these children have been shaken to Kiryat Malachi and other places in the country to study in settings that match their talents - some have given up and abandoned.
Regarding the circumstances that qualified the new project, Maayan Bar-Yohai, the coordinator of the gifted in the city, told "Israel Hayom": "When the mayor, Alon Davidi, and his deputy, the holder of the education portfolio, Elad Kalimi, they turned to the then Minister of Education, Naftali Bennett, and asked to open the gifted center."
Moran Thierry, a Lyrin mother who is in fifth grade and has been recognized as an outstanding student, says excitedly that "I always knew my daughter was gifted, but I did not give it that much emphasis. My husband and I work around the clock, but our children always study in the summer. "She went to the diagnosis, I said 'good luck,' and then they contacted us from the school last year. We received a letter and my daughter was recognized as outstanding."
In the latest Operation Wall Guard in Gaza, a rocket hit the building where the Thierry family lived. The injury killed 5-year-old Ido Avigal, who lives in a nearby building. "Keep going, learn," Thierry the mother summed up her approach.