Never gifted.

They weren't ever a gifted group. Always it was a response to some need often identified by others. Drug taking youngsters...Blighted estate...Poverty ..poorly educated . frontiers kidz ..not most impressive. Various levels of dysfunctions labelled...sadly we used a term called : Unchurched.

There we're others in the gifted groups who educational attainment was always higher...troubled less if you measured success . As directed.

But we reached them they had different skills base. Alumni was on different spectrum. Then funding streams vanished (like the tailoring trade almost overnight ready made suits flooded the market and bespoke tailoring died). The dangerous street corners became new gathering place along with explorative social media of 'Facebook' and 'stick ox'.

All the indications of real world successfully absent . The polished words of professional managers knew them from a distances.

Youth workers are no longer her required.