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My sister did Lady Gaga’s hair for her recent appearance on SNL. She said that she is a completely different person when the camera is not rolling. Very…normal.
Legion, don’t worry. The education system itself will weed those kids out with time.
I know a bunch of dumb ass russians who wanted to go into Speech Pathology, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Pharmacy, etc. because they were 4 or 5 year programs and you make decent money with great benefits and also can open up your own practice and bill. Now those programs are getting harder and harder and most require master’s degrees now and clinical rotations (which I think is great idea) because too many applicants so the dumbasses are going for other fields.
Same with medical schools. Unless you are super smart, good luck getting into a U.S. medical school. Sorry but I am not having some wanna be doctors with an DO degree from the University of Antiqua operate on me. Good luck with that.
“the DOE will make a program in that district and if not, the DOE will bus the kids outside the district to a program. Did LittleLegion take the test? ”
rf,
I don’t think it’s worth it to bus him out of the district.
The school he’s in is one of the best in the city.
My point is not even about my own kids. I’m just talking about the idea that our society has a hard time dealing with talking about intellectual ability but not physical ability.
dh,
My point is not about making money or not. If one wants to make money, by the way, medicine is definitely not the field these days.
My point is about how we can talk about that kid who can swim the 1000meter in 10 minutes but we can’t talk about the kid who scored super high on the SAT.
Not polite to discuss grades. Even at my kids school, there’s a rule about not discussing grades with anyone.
Paris Hilton is a has been. I saw a commercial over this weekend of her new reality show on Oxygen network. ha ha ha ha ha. She couldn’t even land A&E or VH1 to pick up her show (nevermind Bravo) so she had to settle for a shitty network.
n elementary school in 4th grade we had a gifted and talented program where you’d got taken out of class once a week for a few hours and brought to some other school. I think only like 3 or 4 students from every grade would be picked to attend. I didnt get picked and I was SO mad because I knew for a fact i had higher grades (much higher) than one of the kids picked lol. Basically it was a bunch of educators coming into the class for an hour and interacting with the class. This kid got picked because he made a joke about shoes and sneezing! It wasnt based on grades or academics it was based on personality which I found, at the time, to be total bullshit. I really wanted to get into the program cuz they got to go on a lot of free field trips and got to take real art classes while the rest of us were stuck in regular art class gobbling on paste. 🙁
My main point really is about the disparity that I see in the way society deals with ideas of physical ability and inteligence.
When it comes to physical ability our society will always find it acceptable for people to say things like:
“that kid’s got a great arm, sign him up for this program at this high school.”
“She seems like a natural at that gymnastics routine. Get her into this academy and ask for this instructor”
Physical ability is encouraged as well it should be.
Intellectual ability however is somehow, a bit more on the hush hush.
You can’t say things like:
“That kid scored really well on his aptitude tests,
he should be looking into other programs”
or
“She is a natural at math, get her into the right school”.
It’s seen as pushy in a way. I do understand the very real problems of expecting too much from children and the need to let them have childhoods above all. What I’m getting at is the apparent lack of initiative to even start the converstaion in many areas with regards to smart kids.
My sister did Lady Gaga’s hair for her recent appearance on SNL. She said that she is a completely different person when the camera is not rolling. Very…normal.
“Not polite to discuss grades. Even at my kids school, there’s a rule about not discussing grades with anyone.”
OK, I’ll say it. God forbid a minority has low grades.
Legion, don’t worry. The education system itself will weed those kids out with time.
I know a bunch of dumb ass russians who wanted to go into Speech Pathology, Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, Pharmacy, etc. because they were 4 or 5 year programs and you make decent money with great benefits and also can open up your own practice and bill. Now those programs are getting harder and harder and most require master’s degrees now and clinical rotations (which I think is great idea) because too many applicants so the dumbasses are going for other fields.
Same with medical schools. Unless you are super smart, good luck getting into a U.S. medical school. Sorry but I am not having some wanna be doctors with an DO degree from the University of Antiqua operate on me. Good luck with that.
Kens, I think she’ll be all washed up in a year or so and then will wind up in rehab.
“the DOE will make a program in that district and if not, the DOE will bus the kids outside the district to a program. Did LittleLegion take the test? ”
rf,
I don’t think it’s worth it to bus him out of the district.
The school he’s in is one of the best in the city.
My point is not even about my own kids. I’m just talking about the idea that our society has a hard time dealing with talking about intellectual ability but not physical ability.
dh,
My point is not about making money or not. If one wants to make money, by the way, medicine is definitely not the field these days.
My point is about how we can talk about that kid who can swim the 1000meter in 10 minutes but we can’t talk about the kid who scored super high on the SAT.
Not polite to discuss grades. Even at my kids school, there’s a rule about not discussing grades with anyone.
Oxygen is the hausfrau channel right?
*rob*
Paris Hilton is a has been. I saw a commercial over this weekend of her new reality show on Oxygen network. ha ha ha ha ha. She couldn’t even land A&E or VH1 to pick up her show (nevermind Bravo) so she had to settle for a shitty network.
n elementary school in 4th grade we had a gifted and talented program where you’d got taken out of class once a week for a few hours and brought to some other school. I think only like 3 or 4 students from every grade would be picked to attend. I didnt get picked and I was SO mad because I knew for a fact i had higher grades (much higher) than one of the kids picked lol. Basically it was a bunch of educators coming into the class for an hour and interacting with the class. This kid got picked because he made a joke about shoes and sneezing! It wasnt based on grades or academics it was based on personality which I found, at the time, to be total bullshit. I really wanted to get into the program cuz they got to go on a lot of free field trips and got to take real art classes while the rest of us were stuck in regular art class gobbling on paste. 🙁
*rob*
My main point really is about the disparity that I see in the way society deals with ideas of physical ability and inteligence.
When it comes to physical ability our society will always find it acceptable for people to say things like:
“that kid’s got a great arm, sign him up for this program at this high school.”
“She seems like a natural at that gymnastics routine. Get her into this academy and ask for this instructor”
Physical ability is encouraged as well it should be.
Intellectual ability however is somehow, a bit more on the hush hush.
You can’t say things like:
“That kid scored really well on his aptitude tests,
he should be looking into other programs”
or
“She is a natural at math, get her into the right school”.
It’s seen as pushy in a way. I do understand the very real problems of expecting too much from children and the need to let them have childhoods above all. What I’m getting at is the apparent lack of initiative to even start the converstaion in many areas with regards to smart kids.