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California has a state average IQ of 95.5.

That presumably means any kind of complex education will have problems. And adjusting to the bottom half of the distribution means that smarter or even average people suffer from this focus on the "least common denominator"! People are NOT all the same and interchangeable so the best education strategy is to tune the process to fit individuals instead.

Glad I'm gone from California. It's sad but I've written off all emotional attachments to the state and accepted that California's best times are a good 50 years ago.

Back when I was a kid, I was in the California state "Gifted Child" program and it was instrumental in getting me into technology as a career. That can't happen now to anyone like who I was back then. And that demographic that is defining this change in education focus will never achieve anything like I have in my career because this is aligned to the state IQ of 95.5!



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