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Good Sorts: Mum founds home for New Plymouth's gifted children

December 8, 2019

Katja Eager has two gifted children of her own and saw that school wasn't working.

When New Plymouth's gifted children needed a home, it wasn't a teacher or a principal who found them a place to feel safe, it was a mum.

Katja Eager has two gifted children - who think and learn a little differently - and when school wasn't working, she founded a new one.

Hadyn Jones catches up with tonight's Good Sort in the video above.

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