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Originally Posted by graciegirl
Equal is good. But affirmative action yells "pity" to me.
I keep hearing make jobs pay more when the truth is that jobs usually have pay that reflects the level of skill and work involved. I can't see where it is right to up the pay for jobs that do not require great skill.
We are not all born with equal skills. Several decades ago the educators squelched the use of I.Q. testing. Please hear me say very loudly that I in no way think people are more valuable if they are smarter but it sometimes helps to help them if you know their strengths and weaknesses. We have been ignoring those issues and some folks are not doing well in school. It must be frustrating to them.
WE are ignoring a lot of things that to me are obvious so as to be politically correct and not hurt people and in so doing we are hurting people worse and allowing our educational system to fail.
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I have no idea what my IQ is. I'm sure I was tested back in the stone age. But those kinds of tests only tell you how good you are at taking those types of tests.
I can figure percentages in my head, I can add and subtract without thinking about it. I can program a computer, I can ride a horse. I can garden. I can shoot a target at 30 yards with a recurve bow. I can read, and actually enjoy reading, Chaucer. I can understand written Spanish and French. I can swear in 7 languages. I can color within the lines, though my creative streak sometimes rebels against that kind of compliant behavior.
I can play 12 different musical instruments with varying levels of expertise (or novice, as the case may be) and the only reason I can't play more is because those are the only ones I've tried to play thus far. I can read music in C-clef, G-Clef, and F-clef.
I don't need no stankin IQ test to tell me how intelligent I am.