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[quote=Anonymous][quote]That may be true, but it is hard to measure the profoundly gifted at the younger ages. It is much easier as people get older. We know to focus, for example. 
Personally, I know my IQ (about 150), but I have scored as low as 118 (middle school when I registered; we were sleeping on the floor of our new house waiting for furniture). So, they placed me in the "average" grouping. And I was bored out of my mind, and underachieved. So, they wanted to put me in a remedial group. When my parents figured this out, they intervened. Private testing put me at 148 IQ; school counselor did not believe it. There was a huge meeting...I was old enough to be there. The teachers -- particularly the math, social studies and science teachers -- said that putting me back is a huge mistake: that my low performance was because I was not doing the homework. I had subject mastery and I was showing intelligence in class.

I was instead moved up. FWIW, my SAT scores were 1300 (790 math, 510 verbal)...GRE's were 800 math, 640 verbal; I had a 4.0 in my freshman year of college and earn a PhD in computational physics.

But, according to my 8th grade guidance counselor, I was average.[/quote]

To be fair to your middle school counselor, it is possible that your lower verbal scores were "hiding" your abilities in math and science. It is also possible that part of the reason you were not doing homework was that the reading and writing involved were not comfortable for you.

More good reasons to place kids in classes according to their strengths and challenges. Some kids are equally strong across the board, some are stronger in some subject areas than others. If we were to place kids appropriately in each subject, they could end up with a stronger education overall. 
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