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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I think your [b]post fuels parents' anxiety[/b]. You don't have to be a child genius to score well on the WPPSI, and it is an aptitude test, not an achievement test.[/quote] Who said you had to be a genius to do well on the WPPSi test? Many 5 and 6-year-olds who can read, write and have mastered multiplication tables are far from geniuses but they'll hit the WPPSI or any other US elementary school entrance exam out of the park. You seem hung up and infatuated with more jargon -- "gifted" and "genius" or "achievement" versus "aptitude". This is really nonsense spun by the educational industrial complex. A very average 5 to 6 year old can master the multiplication tables and be taught to read and write. It's simply a question of the priorities parents set for their children. In our country, parents are generally free to set whatever priorities for their children they desire or to allow their children to set the priorities for them. [/quote]
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