The 3,000 Most Important Toddlers in the World
29th September 2013
Steve Sailer looks at striving within the Crust.
I’m sure it bores most people, but I can never get enough of New York Times articles about the Wechsler I.Q. tests that the 3,000 most important four-year-olds in the world (or at least in Manhattan and the better parts of Brooklyn) take each year so their parents can pay $40,000 per year for them to attend kindergarten with some of the other 2,999 most important small children in the world. Pay no attention to that IQ test behind the curtain!
These are not just helicopter parents — these are Apache-gunship-escorted-Ospreys-loaded-with-Delta-Force parents.
Whatever magically non-competitive test replaces the Wechsler IQ test for NYC kindergarten admissions will instantly become the most gamed status symbol this side of Seoul.
We are rapidly turning into ancient China, where how you do on The Exams determines what you become, not the content of your character or your capacity to achieve or anything silly like that.
But there is hope! Specifically, Los Angeles:
Los Angeles just isn’t as IQ obsessed as New York is. It’s a who-you-know culture, and if you don’t know anybody, why would they let your child in to their kindergarten for the children of cool parents? Maybe if you are extremely good looking, they’d make an exception. But if you are ugly and unpopular, who cares what your kid’s I.Q. is?
Hmm, well, then again, maybe not….