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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (65470)	6/26/2005 3:01:10 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) of 74559

People will pay heaps to have their offspring rank around 150 IQ instead of 90 Well, I took a large pay cut to get my two daughters into schools in Scotland after the USA versions were plainly not up to scratch. For a start my kids were not being put into school early enough. My youngest, who has a birthday in October was not going to be allowed to attend school till she was nearly six! I asked the USA school authorities to put her into school a year early, but they did a "maturity test" and said she not yet able to attend school. So I gave them the finger and left the country. Back in the UK I had to deliberately find bad schools for my kids to attend. I didn't want them to appear too far behind thier classmates. Later I was able to move them into a top notch school where they both excelled. I.Q's now way up at the top end of the chart. The role of the parents is an important interaction as well. You can't force your kids to study, but you can take an interest in their education and play the game where they get interested too. The UK 11 plus exam (much derided) was based on the true fact that a childs developing brain and education is an important interaction. By age 11 your destiny has been sorted, whether you will be a doctor or street sweeper. Both functions are just as important imho. It is important to start the education of a child by about age four or earlier. Your gene (race) explanation of I.Q is boloney as far as I'm concerned. A view I have mentioned before. Racist B/S politics at it's worst. If I brought up my kids in the USA as was destined at the time, I reckon both of them would have ended up with I.Q's below a 100. If you gave me a 4 year old black kid from anywhere in Africa, yes I reckon I could also get them into Glasgow university studying biology by age nineteen too. With an I.Q well above 130. It's like growing plants, a little care an attention and they bloom.

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