European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 18, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 20 the stars and stripes Friday August 18, 1978 new Yor Tyrnn a complicated math problem is child s play for Sayed Jalal. By Michael Sterne new York times n 8-year-old afghan boy who has completed the High school curriculum and apparently is Able to perform prodigious feats of learning has been brought to new York and is living quietly in Elmhurst Queens while his father seeks help to further his education. The boy Sayed Jalal is slight dark haired and dark eyed and As keenly interested in soccer and volleyball As he is in physics and mathematics. Sayed Jalal is described by his father. Sayed Karim. As a like other afghans they have no family name and Are known Only by their Given names. Sayed is a religious name taken by Many moslem american educators who have interviewed and tested the boy avoid the word Genius which they do not regard As a scientific description of intelligence. But they have been greatly impressed by the Range and depth of the boy s knowledge and say he undoubtedly de serves the High school diploma he received in january three months before his eighth birthday from the afghan ministry of education. Or. George Booth a Brooklyn College mathematics professor who has worked with other exceptional Chil Dren says of Jalal he is a very remarkable boy. He does Good High school level math and is mature in academic ability far beyond his that View is shared by prof. Robert a. Marino a Hunter College physicist who said with better English and some refresher work he would be ready for Karim As ambitious for his son Ai a stage Mother advancing the career of a possible Shirley Temple says Jalal probably could a four Yean of College work in one year and Complete studies for his pm. D. By the time he is 11. Speaking in halting English Karim explained that Jalal had covered the whole 12 years of elementary and High school studies in Only 18 months. But that included rests he added. The work was done actually in one year Only. He learns very twelve instructors from the University in Kabul the afghan capital took charge of Jalal s education after a newspaper article about his precocity made him a local celebrity. He worked six hours a Day under their tute Lage alternating several weeks by weeks of vacation. Seated in the barely furnished 1mcnt where they Are staying with an scratched his Bony Knees fidgeted is his father told his Story. When Jalal was 5, he asked his in a teachers College i office manager in the education i numbers. Karim wrote Down then. A piece of paper and told him to go the had Learned them. Jalal returned lag asked for More. In four hours Karim said a Ilahi numbers from one to a billion. Anil coaching he was Able to dec time i Tion subtraction multiplication u4i that achievement convinced the iwas something of a Prodigy. Karim continued to Tutor the boy when he was 6, took him to some they devised an examination of 801,got them All right. When this became i article in the Kabul times the took Over the boy s education. As soon As Jalal got his diploma in began thinking of seeking help for the h Karim has Only his modest salary support his family which also i Ocbina Young daughters. Scholarship Money at and the special kind of guidance i his mind fully is not available and son began an Odyssey in i them through Iran Turkey Germany were offered help in each country my come to the United states because teachers might be found there. In new York they have attracted l interest of about a dozen people a Moore who u coordinator for children for mensa the re Bers have is of 140 or More. I had them living with my family to weeks and i found Jalal a very qum of seems to be especially Strong the physical sciences. But he is weak to cannot read or write Moore said that what Jalal in English so his intelligence could be 1 precision. Preliminary testing done at sity s teachers College showed him to Well below the level of Many Rosa though the tests were culture in a Moore said they produced puzzling what he has Learned he should a Tver of about 150." a Jalal and his father Alto need film u the boy is to remain u the unt Titi cation Bis family win have u a look after him. Looking beyond these problems jaw patient for his new life to begin. He american children and to venture where he has spent most of the last t pointing to the sneakers Shortl wearing he said i m ready to get some by Ermo bomb cd at wits end As a grandmother. 1 intend to be an absolute bore about my grandchildren. I intend to travel with a projector a screen and 200 lifelike slides showing them chewing on clothespins and standing on their Heads. 1 will produce from my handbag with or without request recent urine samples a tape of them gargling milk at dinner and Clever sayings that win put Art Linkletter out of business. As a Mother however. I refuse to inflict my children on anyone. God knew what he was doing when he gave them to a Dic Tator consequently. I often find myself at the mercy of women with super children super children Are unmitigated Joy. They can always be counted on to do and say the right thing. They always make the team have fewer cavities skip acne know by the third Grade what they want to be. Have their paper displayed at open House and always remember to bring Home the Mother s Day card from Art class. I have made a study of super children and have come to the conclusion that the Only difference Between super children and Normal children is in the interpretation. For example Normal children forgetful at Sloppy Lazy flunked to addict a narc j2? bedded 1� isl my theory on two mothers of super children with kids away a Nese Abl Lover to one and said write Home much from super children preoccupied healthy nonconformist deep thinker victim of teacher to critic no answered. Martha is so Well she does t write too bad you where you rate. I went on to the Mejt does Phyllis write of she said. Phyllis is a very always been dose to daughter she writes three a a have child so. I get the feeling i lot my Mouth. I
