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[quote=Anonymous][quote]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. [/quote]

you are very touchy.

1.  you'd better believe that "profound mental retardation" is a phrase used by the clinicians who ... work with profoundly retarded children.  Like my nephew.  I'm not Charlie Sheen calling someone a 'retard' and 'gay' -- it's a clinical term, and it's accurately used in the post that set you off.  Put away the PC club.

2.   You assume I'm talking about 4.5 yr old emerging readers or something.  Don't know why.  I'm not (my eldest is significantly older), and I'm basing my impressions on time spent with older kids in the classroom, in discussion in my car, and talking with their parents who discuss their academic abilities.  I feel comfortable that I have a handle on their [i]abilities at this point in time in an academic setting[/i] -- which is all we're discussing here.  Someone may discover the next thing after stem cells when she's 56, but that has nothing to do with the actual topic at hand.

3.  Why is it offensive to acknowledge that when you are seeking to admit 3 red-haired students whose last names begin with a /Z/, and who have a mole on their shins, and that's your [u]primary[/u] objective, that you will secondarily compose a class of diverging academic abilities?   This is what my school does, it's not a secret.  It's in the mission statement, for goodness sake.   I think you think I'm talking about skin tone or something; I'm not.  [/quote]

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