Nearly everybody is less smart than someone else. A high IQ is not a ticket to paradise and I don't expect it to be. But why should it sentence you to years of boredom, misery and bullying. We don't expect people to treat people with very low IQ this way -We don't hung people with IQs 4sd below average in a general classroom and tell them to stop whining and not antagonise the other kids by acting "dumb". We don't tell the fast runners that they must run in teams with the slowest runners to ensure equality and that they will be judged on how well the slowest runner does. We don't say sorry we can't stream sports teams - all teams will be allocated randomly - in this country at least doing well in sports does open a lot of doors and does affect your future.

And i don't think leadership is an indication of giftedness given that a lot of gifted people are introverted and others don't want to get involved in silly games.

Last edited by puffin; 07/12/13 03:14 AM.