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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You would think that the country would be in a better place given how many "gifted" kids everyone has in this area! Maybe the testing is too easy. How nice it would be if everyone tested back down in the average range so we wouldn't feel that our children were so precious and underchallenged![/quote]

These kids are the ones who are growing up to be our computer scientists, physicists, neurobiologists, brain surgeons, astronomers, public intellectuals, university presidents, mathematicians, etc. 
 
If everyone were average, we wouldn't be typing on this board, because no one would ever have invented the internet. There would be no google.  Life expectancy would still be 40.  We wouldn't have travelled into space.  We wouldn't have most modern medicines.  We wouldn't have MRIs or CT scans or helicopters.  (We also wouldn't have had sub prime mortgages, but that's another thread altogether)

I think our country would be a better place if these gifted kids were allowed to thrive and challenge, instead of being told to sit still, be bored, pretend you aren't different. [/quote]

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