Is Your Kid Profiled As Stupid?

When my son Theo was fifteen thought college was just not going to be possible for my boy.
It seemed that everybody thought my child was stupid. But I knew way better.
In fact I think my kid is a genius. He is a slow reader but he mastered a super sophisticated animation program all by himself at age ten and makes his own anime cartoons.
I also happen to know that he has superb a photographic and oral memory and can recite entire episodes of various television series off by heart.
How could a kid as bright and sharp as that be labelled as below average!
He is also one of the wittiest and funniest people I know and his observations about the foibles of the world make him the friend of almost everyone he meets.
So how can a kid who can draw, remember and communicate so well be considered stupid by teachers and other academic professionals?
He could take an IQ test and score less than 100 points. That's how!
The profiling of children that is part of today's educational and college admission systems is broken down into the following values –
Here is how the IQ profiling structure works.
130+ Very superior
120-129 Superior
110-119 High average
90-109 Average
80-89 Low average
70-79 Borderline
Below 70 Extremely low!
The numbers above are the 'cut and dry' numbers that are used to measure intelligence and that also can dictate your child's future. However these numbers are far from being the ideal measurement of what your child is truly capable of accomplishing in life.
I learned that my boy, who is artistic, creative and a visual learner probably had no chance of passing the IQ test that was administered to all high school students.
This is because most of the intelligence quotient tests administered today are actually literacy tests and not real measures of how smart or stupid a person actually is…
Yet another problem is that these IQ tests are based on cultural references and if your child does not live up to the middle class white bread standard of what passes for 'fitting in' in this society then he or she will be stereotyped as stupid for the rest of his or her life.
The bottom line – if your child does not do well on an IQ test it does not mean your child is stupid. It means the he or she is nervous and a poor performer in testing situations
In order to try and turn the Titanic that seemed to be my eccentric but talented son's brains around I spent all of my time researching all of the things that I could possibly do in this world to increase my kid's chances of passing that IQ test with flying colors.
I researched everything from diet to what games were good for him to play to how much television he should watch a week.
I made the evolution of my son's literacy my business so that he could pass that IQ test .no matter how much I disagreed with it. I simply had no choice.

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The Mosquito Cell Phone Conspiracy

The Mosquito Cell Phone Conspiracy
Did you know your kid can now use their cell phone silently to text each other during class.
This one works with me because I am getting a little hard of hearing. Nowadays children are sending and receiving text messages and phone calls by using high-frequency tones that are inaudible to most people over thirty. These are called mosquito tones.
Mosquito tones were invented by geniuses in New Zealand who used them to discourage teenagers from hanging around in stores. The high pitched buzzing really gets on a kid's nerves after ten minutes or so and they leave. This helps decrease damage to store kids and also shoplifting. The whole thing was invented by Compound Security Systems and called the anti-loitering machine.
However the same mosquito tones are also now used to fool us old folks into thinking they are doing their homework when they are really talking with their friends. This is because most people over thirty suffer from presbucusis which is a general gradual age related hearing loss. Compound Security also developed these same ring tones for teenagers to download on their phones.
The fact is that as you grow older your ability to hear high pitched sounds deteriorates and the tones that you could hear at twenty become a distant member. The older you get the less higher tones you can hear. If you want to test this out you can go to different sites on the internet that will give a demonstration of how high you can hear by playing tones for you.
I found out that my daughter had these tones because I was sitting in a waiting room with her and my daughter who is eight years old. I noticed that my one daughter seemed to be playing with her cell phone but I was not too concerned because I believed she was obeying the sign in the doctor's office that commanded everyone to turn their cell phones off.
I clued into the whole thing when my younger daughter started complaining of hearing a high whining noise . It was then that I noticed that she never heard it unless my sixteen year old daughter was playing with that cell phone. When I demanded to see my older daughter's phone I was amazed to see she was texting on it. Neither myself or the receptionist could hear the tone very well at all and that is why she was allowed to get away with it. What a little secret agent she can be sometimes!
If you do have some hearing you may be able to hear mosquito tones. They sound exactly what they are named after – like a high whining mosquito buzzing.

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