Somewhere along the 7th grade for me....I had this 'vision' of four groups in my class....one being IQ-levels of 70-to-89, who aren't that bright.....one being pretty average or better IQ folks (90 to 115)....one being rocket-science smart....and one being kids bored out of their mind (the type that should be stocking shelves or shoveling asphalt).
Two of these groups....probably never advanced much after the 8th grade, and it was a waste of time or resources to think otherwise.
I don't seem shocked over how various PhD folks came to recognize that a bunch of 18-year old kids are tested, and they seem (at best) to read at the 5th to 7th grade level or unable to handle 90-percent of math skills.
If you'd done serious testing in 1969 or 1977....you would have figured out the poor skills situation.
What does bother me....we seem to want the low-IQ folks to 'march' on and get into college....lessening entry requirements and dumbing down college enough....to graduate dumbasses with fake degrees, and in some cases...attempting to be dumbass teachers, or dumbass politicians, or dumbass Senators/Presidents.
Getting people to admit this 'crisis'? That's the chief problem we should focus upon.
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I probably belong in the 'shoveling asphalt on shelves' group.
These, these remarkable inspirations, would be OneStepAbove® the kids looking forward to their career of 'stocking shelves of shovels in asphalt'... although, to be fair, they get the points for alliteration.
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