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To: luckystarmom
Yes, lots of hard work can make up for low scores. And there are definitely spoiled smart kids. Good luck to your kids. Sounds like the thirteen-year-old just needs to find his field of interest.

My comment was more of a comment on how the liberal media skew the view.

40 posted on 06/23/2008 1:16:30 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: firebrand

I think my 13 year old will be okay. We’re putting him in a private Christian school for high school, and I think that will make a huge difference. It’s just a higher level of achievement than in our local public school.

Wish me luck with trying to get my 11 year old special needs daughter into college and through it. If she wasn’t good at math, then we wouldn’t try. However, I just think that a kid who tests in the 95-98% on standardized math tests should go to collge. She is skipping a year of math this next year. Most of her troubles show up as her being slow with writing and reading. Slow reading is an easy fix with audio books. I don’t quite know what to do about slow writing. There are some software programs that may help.

It’s an interesting topic. How does IQ (and all it’s components) affect learning?


41 posted on 06/24/2008 8:19:52 AM PDT by luckystarmom
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