I read a letter to the editor about Lewiston’s school cutting the gifted and talented program (Sept. 11). I am a member of the gifted and talented program here, and I think it is very unfair to cut that program. Kids are in that program because they need a challenge, and the regular Language Arts class isn’t giving it to them. It isn’t fair to the kids who are supposed to be in that class and know they have to sit and listen to things they already know, or they have to wait to move on because some kids in the class don’t understand the material and go over it again.

Martha Michel is right. We are sacrificing our brightest students because now we are not learning what we should be learning. We are learning things that we were taught in the third grade. How unfair is that? It is also not fair to the kids who are not in the gifted and talented program and by giving the gifted and talented kids the opportunity to work together, you are also allowing the other students more time to work on things they didn’t understand. So, I agree with Martha Michel, the Lewiston school system needs the gifted and talented program and it isn’t too late to reinstate it.

Kasey Clarke, Litchfield