Thanks for posting this. Murray nails it when he points out that we need to have schools which train kids to perform to their level of ability. You wouldn't suggest that the average joe play football in the pros, so don't suggest that persons with below average intelligence get Ph.D.'s. That said, most kids can and should get better instruction and would benefit by the time spent.
Thanks for posting this. Murray nails it when he points out that we need to have schools which train kids to perform to their level of ability. You wouldn't suggest that the average joe play football in the pros, so don't suggest that persons with below average intelligence get Ph.D.'s. That said, most kids can and should get better instruction and would benefit by the time spent.
No question about this. Good training and career plotting for many children. Example, my son is not college material. I homeschool hima and he will enter a homeschool/voc training school/trainee postion when he turns fourteen. He will come out of it with a master's license by the time he is 20. That will support a family well and permit him to have employees.
I think my daughter with below average IQ could get a PhD in math if she really wanted to.
You have to figure out why they have low IQ before you make blanket statements.
My daughter's IQ is low because of speech problems. It also affects her writing and somewhat her reading. However, her math abilities are better than most people posting in this forum.
Also, IQ can be raised. We are working on ways to improve my daughter's IQ. One of her problems is short term memory, and there are ways to improve it.
Also, she is in intensive speech therapy to improve her verbal IQ scores.
My daughter is also a hard worker, and tends to strive for things that she has to work for. She steps up to the plate when presented with a challenge.
For example, she is in a new private Christian school for 4th grade. They have Spanish at the new school. She cannot say a lot of the Spanish words, and the whole class is very hard for her. We could have probably gotten her out of the class. However, we haven't, and my daughter is stepping up to the plate. She has an A in the class. Her teacher lets her write words instead of saying them. Also, if you show her the Spanish word, she can say the English word for it. She also keeps on learning how to say more and more Spanish words.
By the way, I am not a big fan of the public school system. Last year, my daughter was totally screwed by them. They said she was doing okay even though her reading level had stopped growing, and she was 6 months behind in 3rd grade. We moved her out of public school, and placed her in a multi-sensory reading program at her private school. Her reading is making huge strides this year.