Hi, Carol,
I agree that IQ numbers mean very little. However, the book was about the ordinary and the super-gifted, and IQ was the best way of describing them without a whole lot of wordy material that most kids skim over.
Your son has a perfectly acceptable average, not very different from the hero of UNGIFTED. If he’s reading UNGIFTED, it means he’s keeping up nicely in a normal 7th grade.
I’m sorry if the way the kids in the gifted program are defined has upset you. It was not my intention to upset anyone.
—-Gordon Korman—-