Re: No Genius Left Behind

"R. Steve Walz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>...
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > 
> > No Child Left Behind - You give all the kiddees a standardized test
> >                        and single out all the LOOZerz for special
> >                        funding and treatment....
> >                                       (flushing money down the toilet)
> > 
> > I think we need a NGLB program:
> > No Genius Left Behind - You give all the kidees a standardized test
> >                         and single out all the *Winners* for for
> >                         specialized funding and treatment.
> >                                      (get serious return for the money)
> > 
> > Bob says the Constitution requires equal treatment under the law.
> > If the NCLB qualifies as "equal treatment" then so does the NGLB.
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> Nope. It's one vote per person, not per genius.

I should hope not. I've seen the early IQ tests. Five of the eight
sections required knowledge of numbers. (This was a century ago.)

Also, there's no way to test the creative part of the brain. But
well...Niels Bohr would be fairly right-brained. At least compared to
Einstein. What about Erwin Schrodinger? Yet subatomic particles still
exist, and they still behave so unpredictably.

An interesting thing ignored by Yerkes's tests in the Army: Northern
blacks beat Southern whites.

Perhaps better than 'generic intelligence' (i.e., a genius), we should
focus on specific parts of the brain.

> > WTF is the difference?
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> If you don't know, then you're not a genius and by NGLB you're 
> unfit to be trying to even THINK publically, let alone lead.
> 
> Genius is undemocratic, and everyone who believes it excludes them
> will gang up to destroy NGLB, and good riddance.

Which is why Bush called his plan 'no child left behind', even though
it basically meant no rich child.