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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know where some of you are getting that these kids were "average", much less "below average". I understood that their parents chose to enroll Idris and Seun at Dalton because, at age 5, they were incredibly bright and precocious kids. [b]It is not spelled out, but it appears that their other children did not go to Dalton, probably because they did not show the same exceptional promise early on.[/b] Unfortunately, their intelligence at 5 did not translate into academic success at 18. It is unclear how much that had to do with the unique challenges of being black in America, or AA at a mostly white school, and how much came from the fact that a high-stress environment coupled with parental pressure and micromanaging isn't always conducive to intellectual growth. [/quote] Being the smart one in the family doesn't always translate to that in the classroom.[/quote]
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