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Failing Our Geniuses

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the harrison-bergeron dept.

saintlupus writes "Time has an interesting article about the failure of the US educational system to properly deal with gifted students. For example, up to ten times as much money is spent nationwide on educating 'developmentally disabled' students as gifted ones. Does No Child Left Behind mean that nobody can get ahead, either?"

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  1. as a genius... by bit+trollent · · Score: 3, Funny

    I feel like the education system totally failed me.

    Err actually I went to a gifted & talented middle school (100 smartest kids in Houston). Then I went to a private Jesuit high school. Then I went to a relatively small public college in Dallas.

    And now I make fat cash. I guess I really don't have anything to complain about.

  2. Fail! by uberjoe · · Score: 4, Funny
    Failing our Geniuses?

    Well my school sure failed me!

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    The days of the digital watch are numbered.

  3. Re:To flesh that out some by smittyoneeach · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, the proper quote here is from Caddyshack:
    Judge Smails: Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too.

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    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear