There was a boy in my grade school class (48 kids) who was
generally regarded as mentally retarded. With radically the lowest
I. Q. in the class (and probably the school), he never "passed" from
one grade to the next, but was merely "transferred." There was no
good evidence that he ever learned to read or write. All his test and
quiz papers (I was row monitor) were long series of Xs.
We all wondered what was to eventually become of him.
A quarter-century later his construction company built a major
hospital. I quite accidentally stumbled into the completion party at
a local restaurant. He bought me food.
I never paid the slightest attention to I. Q.s again, although
I'd formerly burned incense at the shrine.
George Wagner
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