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 Posted: 11/20/02 - 13:08 Post subject:
| keltic63 wrote: | | When you're smart, you don't have to tell people how smart you are. |
Mind if I borrow that for my signature?
Still waiting for the reduced image, Runner A+.
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akern
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Posted: 11/20/02 - 13:14 Post subject:
| rolling rock wrote: |
in our district, IQs are floating around like batting averages. THAT is stupid. |
They tell the kids what they got!?
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keltic63
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Posted: 11/20/02 - 13:19 Post subject:
| Erstwhile Lurker wrote: | | keltic63 wrote: | | When you're smart, you don't have to tell people how smart you are. |
Mind if I borrow that for my signature?
Still waiting for the reduced image, Runner A+. |
Go right ahead
I like this one: It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
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Sandy Cheeks
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Posted: 11/20/02 - 14:51 Post subject:
If IQ's were batting averages, I'd be a pitcher.
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Posted: 11/20/02 - 14:55 Post subject:
| keltic63 wrote: | | cherylpf wrote: | | Thank you X, I was thinking of the exact same Far Side but I don't have that whole image posting thing down yet... |
not in the gifted class? |
 NO! Even after my parents BEGGED for me to be re-tested!!! 
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rolling rock
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Posted: 11/20/02 - 14:59 Post subject:
| akern wrote: | | rolling rock wrote: |
in our district, IQs are floating around like batting averages. THAT is stupid. |
They tell the kids what they got!? |
no, they aren't telling the kids. the parents are getting into the scores and comparing them amongst themselves....
i.e......oh, well my little johnnie has an IQ of 135 and he didn't make the program??? your little suzie has an IQ of 120 and did??? let's go to the principal with this, shall we?????
IQs are tossed around in parental conversation only as far as i know. my daughter has no clue what hers is and neither do i, howEVER i feel pressured to jump on the numbers bandwagon and put hers up on a placard in front of the school.
Stevie has an IQ of 150 -- how does that compare to your little Einstein??? BITE ME. BITE US. GET A LIFE.
think it would fly?
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omega lambda
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Posted: 11/20/02 - 15:10 Post subject:
| keltic63 wrote: | | [When you're smart, you don't have to tell people how smart you are. |
You're pretty smart, Steve. Being smart is one of those things that is evident in your actions as well as your words.
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Posted: 11/20/02 - 15:30 Post subject:
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gifted kids rarely rise to the heights that they are capable of, and when it comes to success the average kids do just as well if not better than those identified as gifted. |
I am a prime example of that one! Straight A honor roll student that didn't go to college. At 25 I took a years worth of classes and was relieved to find that school still came easy. I was working on an Associates in Drafting (still have to finish a year  ). I might get to it again. someday
The kids that I thought were all brain dead probably make twice my salary down at the Chrysler plant.  [/quote]
Same here. Even though we had no so-called gifted program I scored very high on all the standardized testing of that day (Iowa Basic Skill Tests). I slogged thru 1-12 with a B avg because I could do it w/o studying and little homework. Every single report card I ever got had the same verbage on it - he's an underachiever, if he applied himself he'd get straight A's, yada yada. Dropped out after 1.5 yrs of college with the same B avg because I just hated school. I've got a good job, make a good salary and don't regret it one bit.
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Laurie Ellen
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Posted: 11/20/02 - 15:33 Post subject:
| Erstwhile Lurker wrote: | | purple hayes wrote: | | I don't doubt that she's capable of doing the academic work, but I think she needs to brush up on her social skills. |
That doesn't make someone a bad person. |
Says who?
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Posted: 11/20/02 - 15:38 Post subject:
just think if you are real smart
you could join the genius forums
i will stay here thanks
iq=120 btw
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Laurie Ellen
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Posted: 11/20/02 - 15:40 Post subject:
| rtpd113 wrote: | just think if you are real smart
you could join the genius forums
i will stay here thanks
iq=120 btw |
I tested 126, and I was even having a really good day!
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Sandy Cheeks
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Posted: 11/20/02 - 15:42 Post subject:
I was in the gifted programs all through school as well, and from 3rd through 6th grade was put in a different school to be in a gifted class.
Even as a 2nd grader I could see it was dumb... I did get more advanced reading and math assignments that I needed, but I don't see why those can't be given in the context of a normal class to those kids who really need them, rather than restructuring the hierarchy of giftedness to include all those smarter than the lowest common denominator.
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copteacher
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Posted: 11/20/02 - 15:47 Post subject:
it (the gifted programs) create almost an arrogance among in them
about 1/2 of the people in grade school that greg and i knew were in the program ended up not even going to college or dropping out...many got involved in the bad crowds and thought school was not cool anymore
we chugged along and worked hard and graduated ahead of them
they may have been intelligent but they did not use that intelligence
you can never discount hard work
think about all the people who have talent for something but do not use it...
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omega lambda
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Posted: 11/20/02 - 15:54 Post subject:
| Erstwhile Lurker wrote: | | purple hayes wrote: | | I don't doubt that she's capable of doing the academic work, but I think she needs to brush up on her social skills. |
That doesn't make someone a bad person. |
Really? Some of the worlds most notorious psychopaths are also intelligent; Ted Kaczynski, Ted Bundy, Ira Einhorn, just to name a few.
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Posted: 11/20/02 - 16:03 Post subject:
| keltic63 wrote: | | Erstwhile Lurker wrote: | | keltic63 wrote: | | When you're smart, you don't have to tell people how smart you are. |
Mind if I borrow that for my signature?
Still waiting for the reduced image, Runner A+. |
Go right ahead
I like this one: It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910) |
Trying not to take that personally.
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