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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]3. Since admissions are competitive, [u]the student body [i]should[/i] be more uniformly high-performing, [/u]so that the range between the extremes is smaller.[/quote]

I think this gets at OP's premise, way back when 5 pages ago.

You would think this, but you might be wrong.  At least in the early grades.   I have been truly surprised at the range in *apparent* ability in my child's class.

I am pretty sure -- no, I am certain -- that this gaping difference in abilities is a logical and direct result of the school's intentional pursuit of a diverse student body.  In every sense of that word.  Also, the guaranteed sibling admission policy, barring psychosis or profound mental retardation.[/quote]

I am glad, PP, that you note that the "gaping difference in abilities" is a difference in "apparent" abilities.  In lower grades, some children are a year or even more younger than their classmates.  Not such a big deal in high school, but when you are talking about a summer birthday 5 year old vs a early autumn (or possibly red-shirted) 6 year old, that's a pretty big difference.  I put no faith in [b]your[/b] ability to figure out what a student's true ability is based on classroom or other observation.

If you were to observe my younger child, one of those dreaded not psychotic and not profoundly mentally retarded (does anyone even use that term anymore?) siblings, you may go home all smug about how he, a struggling emerging reader, is holding back your special snowflake or whatever other motivation you might have for making such incredibly offensive statements here about young children.  If it would be accurate to predict IQ by adding the parents' IQs together and dividing by two, he has a predicted IQ of 155.  I am not at all troubled by what he might be struggling with right now at his tender age.  After all, I was the struggling summer birthday kid in kindergarten, too, and I am not exactly out on the streets begging for my next meal.  Your reference to "diversity" as a reason for why you suspect a diversity of IQs is also incredibly awful and offensive.

As to another poster's point that rich parents may not be academic, do you really think everyone with a highly gifted IQ feels the need to run around sounding academic and pursuing careers that would satisfy the DCUM mob of their credentials?  I don't know how many kids in a typical class would test as gifted, but the generalizations on this thread are crazy.  If I wanted my kids to be hung up on that label, I'd move to MoCo and get them labelled so they could go along on that special "gifted" track.  My husband and I made another choice for our children, which was to place them in a school that didn't use those labels.  Neither of us liked living with the label and thought education had to be about more than that.[/quote]

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