When I was in high school, I was in a gifted class with several really brilliant people. Amazingly brilliant. There was also another group in the class who had 'tested in' meaning they didn't have the IQ scores but they did so well academically either the school or the parents pushed to get them in our class. (I don't really know why, because at the time there was no room in the budget for a teacher so we just had a study hall together, unsupervised)
Anyway, none of the brilliant kids went on to college. Not one. They are all laborers now, in some fashion. All of the 'tested in' kids went to college, and are now doctors and lawyers and such. As for me, I just wanted to go to college to get out of that stifling small town- but I wasn't very inspired to go.
Anyway, because of that I don't worry about kids doing well in school- I worry about the ones who aren't!

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