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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't think that we should go back to a time when kids were just called dumb and ignored, but [b]I also don't think kids who are poor at math or poor at writing [/b]should get training wheels for their tests so they can take the place of less wealthy kids who actually are good at math and writing.

If you had never seen this in action, then you don't know the DC private school set.[/quote]

What about kids who are brilliant at higher level math, but do it slightly slower at basic calculations and get extended time? What about authors who excel at weaving stories and arguments but have difficulty with the physical process? 
For all those of you saying that life is an IQ test, you do realize that IQ tests have different components just like life, right? Processing speed is only one facet and a minor one at that. A child with a very high verbal and spatial reasoning ability and slower processing speed may never be an emergency room physician, but I would think psychiatry and oncology are two possible specialties where depth, but not speed is required. I'm not a lawyer, but I assume there are also different fields of law that require different skill sets.

Unfortunately, at this point in time, we seem to value speed over depth, so a quick tweet or insult gets retweeted and the writer gains popularity without regard to whether or not it is accurate.  [/quote]

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