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It's totally fascinating to me that all the rocket scientists I work with managed to - at most - have one AP calc class in high school and yet are still brilliant mathematical/scientific minds.  
And they didn't spend their whole high school career complaining that they were soooooooooooooo bored and miserable and just not challenged.
Why are today's kids utterly miserable unless they're 3 or 4 or 5 years ahead in math.  Are they really that much more brilliant in just a generation?  I highly doubt that.[/quote]

But think how much more brilliant they would have been if they'd taken more math classes in high school!:-)[/quote]
Or they could've been completely turned off by being overloaded and not being able to have fun.[/quote]

Schools with in schools aren't about making better students. They are about balancing demographics and test scores the bring up the averages in lesser schools with better students.  Poor kids are going to fail at a predictable clip and rich kids will not fail at a predictable clip as well all while brilliant kids who work hard will be identified eventually and continue to advance almost irregardless of the actual school environment. But MoCo was convinced that they would sweeten the pot and get the rich kids to volunteer to go to the targeted schools because they couldn't make them other wise. There is a reason there are no real special programs at the W's.

People think the motives are seeing that little Johnny is a math wiz but that is only the sales pitch from the county. They really get make a new program when they need an infusion of higher HHI kids to prop up a school. People sit back and think it is the program that is making the kids but it is the kids that are making the programs.  [/quote]

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