I am planning to eventually start a High School based on nurturing talent. If you have any ideas or recommendations based on this, post them here. The name itself is still up to questioning.

I don't really have any concrete ideas, but how are you going to determine the standard for talent?

Talent is one standard that is hard to replicate, so perhaps as a starting basis a student could have already skipped a grade, or be multiple grade levels above a standard level in one subject or more. Recruitment could be an option, although it would be pricey. Perhaps the recruiters would simply search for Students with talents that rise above a High School standard. Diligence could be considered a talent of it's own, for example. If one were to use a standard from applications, you could request them to outline their talent, and they do so fairly well, or picked a talent that is select-able such as math or science, you could allow them to proceed to a specially prepared entrance exam.

What if their talent wasn't something based around academics? Like sports or music?

What if they were really bad at maths, but was a genius when it came to writing poems?

I think everyone has some kind of talent or another. There isn't anyone out there who isn't good at something. You'd have to limit it to certain talents or say you only accept the absolute best, in which case referring to those who aren't THE best as not having a talent is kind of insulting...

exactly what kind of talents will you be targetting with this? are you limiting it to the talents that are taught and acknowledged in high schools only, or will you have other methods of recruitment with a wider variety of classes?

What about creative talents? Like art, acting, writing, music overall like playing an instrument or singing? And then Making Classes for example one based on music where you learn (besides the usual classes like english, maths and so on) a lot about musics history, play music in groups made of, for example, 7 people, depending on what instruments they play. Then making music together in some lessons, practising together and such. The art class could do many creative projects and sometime help the acting class out with backgrounds for plays and such. People who like writing could write poems or play scenes if they want to, play whole storys that could be played and so so.

TL;DR A Highschool with creative hobbies where each class with a different talent can compliment something to make a big project besides the usual classes like maths and the chosen subject.

Why don't you do inordinary talents such as fencing

>>8 At least make your username "Anonymous2" if you're not OP...

This is such a vague thing to do, because there's too wide and varied a range to simply say people are the most talented. I guess you could take the Danganronpa approach and have the people be the best of a specific thing.

But what I'm still trying to figure out is why? This seems like a strange place for someone thinking of starting such an important school. Just to clarify, you do mean starting a school irl right? As in, you're not meaning a game or writing a story or something yeah?

Anyways, as the Original Poster I have decided to add OP to the end of my name.
>>9
There wouldn't be any reason not to if it was categorized as a talent, the school could get a great amount of fame if a particularly talented fencer from the school would compete in the Olympics at some point.
>>11
Yes, absolutely. I am sickened at the approach that parents have given their children, not nurturing obvious talent. I would to create a school that nurtures talent beyond what parents can provide, and federal schools will. I have seen a math genius settle to create a furniture painting business after high school, this by itself should be enough to motivate me to this extent.
>>8
There could be a sort of exam in which talents of similar types work to make something such as a foodstuff, a book, or a game, but I can't help but wonder how it would be done in a way that promoted people to actually work together without risking losing major talents.
>>6
I think that I will start the school focusing on more common talents, such as a talent for a subject within a curriculum like math or biology, but then expand the curriculum. It will simply be a matter of how much the school can take.

I am thinking of giving talent three types to ease integration, namely being Academics, Leadership, and Sports.

>>13 Those are three talents that almost every school already focuses on. Your average school will nurture more talents than that. You have just listed the bare minimum of what every school values. And other schools already add as much talent-nurturing as they can handle/afford. Your base ideology is not new. The problem is, schools can't afford to have more talent based classes because the core classes take up space. And at least in my area, most talent based stuff that doesn't fit in one of your three categories is being cut out, specifically because the schools can't afford to expand. Your school as you describe it now is no different than any other.

To make yours different, you can do a few things, but there are major downsides to them (hense why it hasn't been done yet). One option is to cut out the core classes to make room for talent classes, but then you wouldn't have the things that are considered necessary in society and you would be more of an extras school that people could go to outside of their normal schooling. You won't be seen, treated, or functioning as an actual school. A second option to set yourself apart is to eliminate common electives like music and theater and replace them with uncommon electives that focus on the talents that you don't see at most schools, such as fencing or whatever. But then you don't have musicians or actors at your talent school.

Again, your concept is too broad. Everyone wants to make their school a place that fosters talent, but you have to pick and choose what kind of talent you want to foster. And most schools pick the things that they do because those are valued and common talents. Doing something different requires a sacrifice of what is normally done. So I'm not sure what kind of vision you have for this school. At this point, it sounds like the vision of every other school.

sounds like you're talking about hopes peak academy from dangan ronpa lol.. things didn't end well there. " Hope's Peak Private Academy was an exclusive, government-sanctioned school that accepted only students with exceptional abilities. "

>>14
How about just focusing on talents they already have, and replacing electives with those, and having year round and optional weekend classes?

I think the main academic purpose of this school would be to fulfill a degree, through college accredited classes that match what talents you have.
This would mostly apply to Academics and Leadership, but I am not sure of how to make Sports be a decent part. Perhaps I should just entirely overlook sports?