on the talented and truly gifted kids.
It's a shame and in a way by doing so we are reinforcing failure. The slow kids are really not going to do very well no matter what we do or how much we spend on them. It's a plain and simple fact of life. A kid with an IQ of 75 can only do so much. All the money in the world isn't going to change that one iota.
While I am not against having Special Education teachers train these kids to be as good as they can be it's really unfair and simple bad business to hold the truly talented back.
It is the truly talented that are the ones that will find a cure for cancer, open up space, invent a longer lasting low energy light bulb and in general make huge contributions to the planet.
Instead we leave these kids in a classroom held back and bored to tears instead of letting them simply run and go as far as their talents can take them.
A lot of schools have so-called 'Advanced Placement' classes for those that are in, say, the upper 10 or 15% which is fine. However I am not looking at those kids, I am looking at the maybe top 2%, the truly exceptionally sharp youngsters.
These are the kids we should yank out of the traditional school system and let them learn as much as they can and as fast as they can. If some young genius can learn calculus in second grade then let him. Don't hold him or her back! Let them run!
Leaving some truly brainy kid in a normal classroom is a waste. It wastes talent and quite often stifles it. There are probably a quite a number of truly talented kids that get bored and start acting up. Can't say as I blame them. I'm sure that some of them grow so bored they simply drop out of school.
I say that we ought to stop worrying about the slower kids and instead of spending pies of money to prop up individuals that really are not going to go anywhere that we take a little money out of Special Education and plow it into the truly brilliant.
It's a damned good investment that should pay excellent returns as opposed to Special Education that doesn't have nearly the return rate.
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