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Or did we just relabel the slack jawed idiots "normal"?
My son is one of three or four kids in his class of about 30 considered "exceptional", and is in all sorts of specialized, individualized programs. In all my years of schooling, from elementary school through all of high school, I was the top student, and I was in the top 1% of my graduating class in college. I was never called "exceptional", nor did I know any "exceptional" kids during all that time. Were we just a stupider generation? Would it be too much to expect a cure for cancer, a solution to the crisis in the Middle East, and the invention of the holodeck, from my kids' generation?
My son is one of three or four kids in his class of about 30 considered "exceptional", and is in all sorts of specialized, individualized programs. In all my years of schooling, from elementary school through all of high school, I was the top student, and I was in the top 1% of my graduating class in college. I was never called "exceptional", nor did I know any "exceptional" kids during all that time. Were we just a stupider generation? Would it be too much to expect a cure for cancer, a solution to the crisis in the Middle East, and the invention of the holodeck, from my kids' generation?