Subject: Re: Please help identify this short story
From: Mike Schilling
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written
David T. Bilek wrote:
A. Freerksen wrote:
I read this short story years ago, but I cannot remember the title or
author. The protagonist is a young boy in a futuristic society where
every child of a certain age (I think it was 12) must take a test.
Sometimes children do not return after they have taken the test, but
the other children are never told why. The boy likes to read and is
not worried about taking the test, although his parents seem
concerned. The children are given a truth serum so they cannot lie
about the anwers on the test. The boy takes the exam and finds it
very easy. The kicker (you don’t find out until the very end of
the story) is that the boy’s parents are notified it was necessary to
terminate the boy because he exceeded the intelligence quotient
allowed in their society.Is this a joke of some sort I’m missing?
This is the exact same story
that was just posted a week or two ago…You can remember back that far accurately, eh? We know how to deal with your kind.