I know there are/were more than a few Governor's School Alumni on here. I went to GSW99 myself. Anyway...

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"Fellow Governor's School Alumnus: As you likely know, funding for Governor's School has been eliminated in the current state budget. On Thursday, July 14, Joe Milner, President of the NC Governor's School Foundation, met with leaders of the NC State Board of Education to determine the possibility of continuing Governor's Schoolbeyond 2011. The Board of Education has decided that if the GS Foundation cannot raise $100,000 by August 1, 2011, the Board of Education will not support continuing Governor's School in 2012. We are working diligently to contact every Governor's School alumnus to ask for help in raising this money to give Governor's School a chance. With over 31,000 alumni, we could raise $100,000 with less than $4 from each alumnus. Unfortunately, we have verified contact information for less than 25% of our alumni. We are asking for your financial support because this is the last hope for Governor's School. We are also asking that you help us replace the 3 out of 4 donors that we are missing by donating $16 to Governor's Schooltoday. (Of course, if you can donate more, it will help even more) Governor's School is relying on our statewide grassroots network of supporters like you to help us spread our message to help save Governor's School. If you have contact information for members of your Governor's School class, please forward this message and encourage your friends and family to donate today. Thank you again for you continued support of Governor's School. "

http://www.ncgsfoundation.org/about/
http://www.ncgsfoundation.org/how-to-help

7/21/2011 4:32:48 PM

GSW 96 ftw.
but, if it has to go, let it go. all it did was fuck up my brain anyhow. and no AC? wtf? salem is expensive as shit. put some dam ac units up in there.

[Edited on July 21, 2011 at 4:34 PM. Reason : .]

7/21/2011 4:34:09 PM

GSE '05

hated it

7/21/2011 4:42:29 PM

GSE '01 loved the shit out of it. It's one of many reasons I became a teacher. I'm still good friends with a lot of folks I met there. I dunno about the rest of you, but it renewed my faith in education/learning mainly due to the fact that it was so different from my high school classes.

7/21/2011 4:49:25 PM

GSE 99, the last year at St. Andrews. It was alright, but not some holy shit awesome experience as some had, and also not terrible as some others have said. Honestly I think much of that was because of the location being in fucking Laurinburg. I would far prefer if it had been at Meredith myself.

7/21/2011 5:09:00 PM

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"GSW 96 ftw. "

It must have fucked up your brain considering we were there in '97.

7/21/2011 5:09:42 PM

So those of you chiming in, what were you there for?

<-- English/Writing "Prosetry"

Also, have you/will you donated? I threw a few bucks their way.

7/21/2011 5:11:57 PM

GSW '01. What a fucking waste of a summer. Some cultish shit going on in Salem College. Let it die.

7/21/2011 5:12:18 PM

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"GSE '01 loved the shit out of it. It's one of many reasons I became a teacher. I'm still good friends with a lot of folks I met there. I dunno about the rest of you, but it renewed my faith in education/learning mainly due to the fact that it was so different from my high school classes."

ditto! except i was gsw '00.

7/21/2011 5:13:19 PM

I was there for the women...and math.

7/21/2011 5:14:13 PM

There was 2:1 girl/guy ratio on our campus. Man, did I pine after those girls.

7/21/2011 5:19:45 PM

I was at GSW 99 for Math. My wife was at GSE 99 for Social Science. We both had fantastic experiences and we're donating for both of us.

7/21/2011 5:22:21 PM

great

I hope to some day land a summer job there TAing or -- ohpleaseohpleaseohplease -- teaching.

[Edited on July 21, 2011 at 5:25 PM. Reason : .]

7/21/2011 5:25:01 PM

^^Who is your wife? I was in Social Science in GSE 99 too.

7/21/2011 5:30:22 PM

^Christina Cartwright

7/21/2011 5:38:04 PM

I've gotta find a picture. I totally remember the name, but can't put the face to her. I know she was in classes with me, just having a hard time putting names to faces. If I remember correctly she was from the beach, like KDH, right?

7/21/2011 5:41:02 PM

^ Correct.

7/21/2011 5:47:56 PM

good riddance

7/21/2011 5:49:27 PM

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"GSE '01 loved the shit out of it. "

i was there for instrumental music. it was a great summer!

7/21/2011 6:29:16 PM

Write your congressional representatives... they DO listen.

7/21/2011 6:42:33 PM

GSE '99 for math here.

It's a once in a lifetime experience and I can't believe they'd think of doing away with it.

7/21/2011 7:13:20 PM

Nerds.

7/21/2011 7:29:28 PM

^^ I can. The state's broke and the first thing they always gut is education

7/21/2011 7:35:23 PM

i was sad i didn't get in (visual arts)...would've been in 00 iirc. had friends that went to salem that summer...one for dance, the other for visual arts

i hope it makes it...hell i'd even throw a few bucks their way

7/21/2011 7:52:50 PM

I was in Governor's School in VA and they cut the funding for my county about a year ago
It makes me sad, I met some of my closest friends through Gov. School and really enjoyed coming in with enough credits so I only had to pay 3.5 yrs of out of state tuition.

7/21/2011 10:28:06 PM

never heard of this until now. I gave them a jackson

7/21/2011 10:41:51 PM

My wife and I just donated $50.

7/21/2011 11:08:26 PM

It is one of those programs that did what it was suppose to do, it is time to say goodbye....it is on life support, sooner or later nothing will save it (unless they charge $5,000 to attend).

7/22/2011 12:19:44 AM

The NC GS Foundation exceeded their $100,000 fundraising goal. As I understand it, this should buy them time so solicit larger scale donations from foundations, businesses and major donors that will be needed to sustain the program.

7/23/2011 6:12:57 PM

good riddance.

7/27/2011 12:11:46 AM

DIAF

7/27/2011 1:03:04 PM

kill it with fire

7/27/2011 3:25:09 PM

i'm not sure if i'm biased or not, but it seems like a lot of people who went to GS want it to continue because they made friends ?

That doesn't seem like a logical reason to continue spending tax payer money.

my .02

7/27/2011 3:34:07 PM

I'm old. I don't even remember what the Governor's school is. All I can think of is the NCSSM.

7/27/2011 3:41:07 PM

I went for choral music the last year at GSE in laurinburg. I definitely had a really good time, but I agree that this shouldn't be taxpayer funded.

7/27/2011 4:48:55 PM

I, too, went to Governor's School. It was fun, but it wasn't the high learning experience that it was made out to be, and during and post-attendence it's just been a lot of circle-jerking about how great we are to have gone to Governor's School. My brother doesn't agree with me (he also attended), but I honestly don't mind that the program is getting dropped. I care much more about the ridiculous cuts to universities.

7/28/2011 4:43:23 PM

I attended GSW in 1982 and posted my written and video rant against that godforsaken six-week summer program here:

http://attitudeadjustment.tripod.com/Essays/GS-West.htm

To echo others here, good riddance!

To the poster who mentioned NCSSM (North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics), that is a completely separate program that offers an intense high school experience for gifted 11th and 12th graders. It is very worthwhile for many, a wash for others, and disastrous for a few. I posted an analysis here:

http://rebirthofreason.com/Articles/Setzer/Advice_for_Those_Considering_NCSSM.shtml

[Edited on October 14, 2011 at 11:11 AM. Reason : Minor Clarification for Year Attended]

10/14/2011 11:10:44 AM

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"i'm not sure if i'm biased or not, but it seems like a lot of people who went to GS want it to continue because they made friends ?"

Most of those kids couldn't make friends at their "regular schools." GS was the only place they felt "accepted."

Only benefit I got out of GS was an extra line on my college application that probably got me some scholarship money.

10/14/2011 11:15:10 AM

[Edited on October 14, 2011 at 12:01 PM. Reason : never mind]

10/14/2011 12:00:09 PM

^ditto

10/14/2011 12:01:48 PM

it's never nice to see things get cut, but this shit is a total waste of time.

10/14/2011 12:21:37 PM

i didn't go, but my wife did and loved it

we donated $250

10/14/2011 12:34:31 PM

^6 I hope you didn't pay $5 just to post that

10/14/2011 1:49:09 PM

I hope he did. qntmfred could always use another $5.

10/14/2011 1:54:14 PM

lol true.

10/14/2011 1:58:03 PM

It was worth $5 to support a board for my alma mater NCSU and vent about GSW at the same time!

[Edited on October 14, 2011 at 2:48 PM. Reason : Add NCSU and GSW]

10/14/2011 2:19:25 PM