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[quote=Anonymous]The suggestion that no kids are above average and that G&T kids are actually just mediocre is simply ridiculous.

Let's explore it in other context - suppose we say the same thing about grades - that the kids in the honor roll are actually just mediocre and all kids do the same, and that A grades and honor roll are just a bogus label to satisfy whiny parents.

Similarly, sports programs are all bogus too, and all of the kids on the team are just there because of whiny parents, and in fact all of the kids are actually mediocre and with the same athletic performance, and that the competitions are all just phony and rigged and none of the kids are really any better at sports than any of the others.  And, the professional sports teams and Olympians that come out of it are of course equally mediocre and Michael Jordan was no more talented than a 3 year old toddler or a 90 year old man with a walker because they are all equally mediocre.

Similarly, the kids in band playing instruments can't actually play instruments any better than the kids who don't play at all and we're all just pretending that what we hear is music when in fact it's all just random noise, none better than the next.

And then, when people get out into the world, the ones starting and running big successful businesses or the physicist creating high tech nanomaterials is no more skilled or knowledgeable than the guy who works the assembly line stamping widgets all day.  Anybody could have done what Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Sergey Brin, Jeff Bezos, and other entrepreneurs did, easy peasy because we are all equally mediocre, nobody is extraordinary.

That all sounds quite ridiculous but it wouldn't be any different than what keeps being suggested of G&T.  It's an incredibly skeptical, clueless and cynical view that slathers everything with a huge sloppy brush of drab gray mediocrity.[/quote]

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