Word: iq
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Adam Curtis' British documentary The Power of Nightmares. Like Fahrenheit but with a calmer tone and a higher IQ...
...Some of the most challenging parents come from the ranks of those whose child is brilliant - or who think their child is brilliant. Even moderate giftedness is quite rare. In an average classroom, there might be three children with an IQ over 130; they'll learn more quickly than their peers and need less repetition. (Profoundly gifted children - those with an IQ over 180 - are a 1 in 500,000 to 1 in a million phenomenon.) Yet teachers joke that parents have their own definition of giftedness: 2% of the population - plus their own child...
...interesting,'" says Anne. "'because he talks all the time, can't follow instructions and hasn't completed a single task.'" Other parents consult child psychologists, speech and music therapists and sundry other specialists, desperate to unlock their child's potential. "Sorry," says Anne, "no therapist can fix an average IQ." Parents tend to retreat a little once their child reaches high school, though subject choices in the senior years can fire them up again. "It's often dads who will be absolutely determined that their daughter do (advanced) maths," says Vicki Waters, principal of St. Margaret's Anglican Girls School...
...bullies shouldn't cloud the issue of what decent parents might reasonably expect of teachers. Dissatisfied with the local primary school, Sydney mother-of-three Rachael withdrew her eldest daughter, now 10, and enrolled her in a private school. Her daughter's very bright, Rachael explains - with an IQ in the top 1% - but has a condition that interferes with her reading. So Rachael makes a point of meeting her daughter's teacher at the start of each year and regularly thereafter. "I make sure they've got all the literature on her - the IQ test, reports about the syndrome...
...thought he would be terrific here,” says Blinder. “It was not just that he had a high IQ and could solve puzzles. He was imaginative....I thought he was brilliantly creative...