Originally Posted by MegMeg
Originally Posted by ultramarina
This is interesting to me because DD's gifted magnet makes a big deal of emphaszing "leadership." It strikes me as a bit odd. Just because you're very bright doesn't mean you're a leader.

I almost feel like they are trying to create some sort of weird sense of "noblesse oblige" in these kids.

They may in fact be unapologetically grooming kids for Ivy League colleges, which are at least as much about hooking into the power elite as they are about getting a good education.

Lots of kids at the Ivy schools will feel funny if they don't make it into the U.S. Senate within a few years of graduating college. The grooming is not an unalloyed positive for many of them.

DeeDee