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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For the love of God!

The barrage of links are to scholarly studies and research backed articles to support my opinions!

I NEVER called anyone's points BS.

I did NOT write the post about anyone having a minimal understanding of basic concepts.

This was addressed like two posts ago! Are you even reading the thread?

You realize you are trying to thwart the efforts of someone trying to advocate for the needs of children, right?

Anyways, I agree that This thread has seen better days. There are only a bunch of mean girls left on here just waiting to pounce.

My hope is that a parent or two took something beneficial away from all the time and effort I put into this thread.
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You're advocating for a particular group of children who are already very privileged, for the most part.  By the time IQ is testable, at age 8 or so, environment has played a huge role.  Even strong supporters of the IQ test agree that tests at age 4 are not very meaningful.  Others here have been arguing for an even stronger version of this, i.e. that IQ is less innate and more subject to environmental factors.

The point others here have been trying to make is that, by the time kids reach age 8, when IQ tests are more valuable and magnet testing starts in many districts, a privileged environment has played a huge role for some kids.

If you want to help low-SES kids, you need to start at age 4 (when IQ is much harder to determine) and spend your money on providing an enriched education to ALL low-SES kids.  Then, by the time they are age 8 and testing for magnet programs begins, they will be more likely to pass the tests.  All the recruitment in the world won't help if the low-SES kids aren't able to do well on magnet entrance tests because they had a poor educational environment.[/quote]

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