June 25, 1991

TIME Magazine Letters

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New York, N. Y. 10020

If John Sununu's IQ was around 170 as previously reported in TIME, it has dropped considerably. Teachers are not surprised when they have to reinforce such social and ethical concepts as the value of a dollar, the value of other people's property and the value of honesty to their mentally handicapped students. I am surprised when one of Sununu's stature must have those values reinforced. Does the Washington crowd lose IQ points the longer they are there? I do question the realiability of the intelligence instrument Sununu took. Mr. Bush and his staff, as well as other Washington politicians, should be given a yearly, national-normed, computer-scored test on social and political ethics, and those test scores should be made available to every public school student in the United States.

Dale Hill