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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You don’t know who’s going to turn the wheel forward, OP. Maybe it’s someone has been identified as academically gifted, and maybe it isn’t.

I have a “genius” IQ and while I am living a perfectly nice life, I haven’t changed the world. I certainly know people with much less intellectual horsepower who have had a much bigger impact.

Gifted kids deserve a good education, but that’s because all kids do, not because they’re more important than other kids. [/quote]

You want to play semantics. All the people who have had a meaningful impact on society have been geniuses in their respective areas. Not all geniuses will do something impactful, but you can’t if you don’t have the genius in you.

I never said that gifted kids are more important. On the contrary, I said that they deserve their fair chance and should not be [b]sacrificed[/b]. If two more kids should receive services do one gifted one can, than so be it. Don’t sacrifice the gifted because you’re not exactly sure who the gifted are. [/quote]

Sacrificed?

Maybe parents of profoundly-gifted kids should focus on EQ... 
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Why??!! So your kids can get their free and appropriate education? Maybe you should focus on your own EQ so you can better understand all the people. [/quote]

The leaders of the world tend to be people who are smart, maybe gifted but who knows, and have good to great social skills.

The gifted people I know all have sucky people skills and struggle to hold jobs because of that. If they had better EQ and social skills, they would do far better in the work place. Instead they have spent their lives grumbling about how they are smarter then their bosses, who are idiots,  and wonder why they cannot hold a job. They have insanely impressive resumes, based on their education and knowledge in their fields, but they cannot work with other people. Mine is a small sample of the population but it is not exactly an unusual story.

I also know gifted people who are very much in the middle of the pack at work. They get along fine with people but they are not motivated to move up their profession. They are happy where they are and are not interested in advancement. I know gifted people who do not understand why you have to jump through hoops to achieve certain goals. Half the people in my PhD program dropped out, not unusual, because they are not interested in doing the small things that you have to do to earn the degree. It had nothing to do with intelligence but a lack of perseverance and persistence.

Gifted people have different personalities and different strengths and weaknesses like everyone.

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