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For the Smith family, playing with blocks was serious business. When they invited other parents with babies to come over and play with their child they would immediately set out blocks for both of the kids and watch with triumph as their toddler would build block towers sometimes as tall as five blocks high. The other toddlers would often be confused and more than one helpless block would end up in one of their innocent little mouths. Those innocent toddlers had no idea what they had done.

If it hadn’t been for the block building incidents the Smith’s would not have had a reason to go on a campaign for the increase in separation between gifted and non gifted children. Truly the mental abilities of a child could be determined from birth and in this enlightened age of specialization order discount pharm it didn’t take a lot of persuading to see that kids should specialize antibiotics to buy online in the tasks they could accomplish from birth. Thanks to Mrs. Smith being a mighty politician it wasn’t long before The Block Tower Bill was passed by a seventy percent majority in the senate and quickly stamped by the president’s desk since Mr. Smith had done him a number of favors in the past.

The bill was quite simple. Children at the age of one and a half would be given a standardized test. Each child would be given five blocks and one minute to build as high of a block tower as they possibly could. If the child could not place any blocks on top of each other, they would be designated for the learning level of one. These children would never be doctors or physicists so why should they bother wasting valuable time and money on higher education when they were only going to work hard labor jobs. Learning levels two and three comprised mostly of the service jobs and military grunts. They required a higher degree of education since they needed to talk and count, but not so much as those who build cheap acomplia towers four of five blocks high. The children who built towers four blocks high became the politicians, business owner, writers, artists, musicians, and other thought provokers that were needed to make a culture flourish and economy run. The last group was designated for the engineers, scientists, and theorists. They would have the most need for their brains so would be of the least use to actual societal measures.

Children purchase cheap tabs built their towers. Some toddlers built towers that leaned precariously, other toddlers simply picked up the blocks and through them at the one supervising the test. All toddlers were tested and then placed unceremoniously in their classes. Wealthy parents would send their babies almost immediately from the womb to special block building schools run by fours in order to increase their likelihood of building a tall tower on the test. The poor and unfortunate, who could not afford and did not care about things such as the block tower test did nothing and their children more commonly built towers that were only one or two blocks high. They system seemed to work as the bright children seemed to end up in the upper echelon classes and the “dull” children ended up in the lower classes.

The law makers being four block children had little reason to change the law after they came into office since they were quite content with their position in life, while the larger majority who did not have the knowledge of their rights as citizens as this was deemed an unnecessary part of their education fast became the willing slaves of the minority.

When conditions became tough and the one, twos, and threes started to feel their lower income they started to complain, but a crafty group of fours and fives quickly pointed to their beautiful charts and showed that during later tests the fours and fives always scored much higher than the ones, twos, and threes thus the system did what it intended. When this did not quiet the rumble in the bellies of the lower classes the fours and fives pointed out that each child had a chance to become a four or five just like they had. “The Block Tower test provides every child the chance to become a five”. With that statement came a roar from the masses. Soon the ones, twos, and threes began scraping together their meager earnings and bought wood to make odd shaped blocks. They gave them to their babies desperately trying to get them to build tall towers like the high class babies did. Their efforts did not go in vain. The number of toddlers testing into the fours and fives was increasing by giant leaps and the ones, twos, and threes became the minority. The fours and fives went back to the drawing board as this certainly would not do. Low class children becoming fours and fives would destroy the system that they had come to love so much. So what did the fours and fives do?

They made a new standardized test called The Amazing Block Tower declaring the old block tower test an unsatisfactory separator of intelligence. Each year what the judges would look for in the tower building would be different and thus unpredictable. Not wishing their own children to fail by these new designs they created expensive schools that had considerable knowledge into the test maker’s ideas. The ones, twos, and threes once again unable to afford such schools instantly fell into depression. How could they compete with the fours and fives who had the resources to send their kids to private block building instructors.

The number of blocks increased. Colors of blocks were added deeming that children who put like colors together were indeed more intelligent. Color blind children were made provisions for, but the parents would have to know the child was color blind before hand and without an eye doctor to diagnose whether or not a low class child had cones in its eyes led to the high class children receiving yet another advantage.

Thus the difficulties grew, and The Amazing Block Tower test morphed and changed until a million blocks were present and the class assignment system judged more on the judges intuition rather than hard facts. Creativity was given a scoring guideline as well as artistic ability. Due to the judging being delivered by fours it wasn’t hard for the judges to be bribed by other fours who wanted to keep the natural order of things. The society flourished while the lower classes wilted. The ones, twos, and threes without proper English lessons became less and less able to understand the extensive rules that applied to the test and a new language was formed for the lower class called Common Speak, while the fours and fives called their own speech Noble Speak. In no time at all the rules were established and without the ones, twos, and threes even aware the fours with the cooperation of the fives passed a new law keeping classes consistent. People could marry only within their class and their children would be designated the same class level as the parents. After all, the block tower test was expensive and children nowadays rarely scored higher than their parent’s level anyways. The Noble Speakers were happy and the Common Speakers did not understand or care.

In the slums of a Common Speakers dwelling a parent gave their child five blocks to play with. While the parent with the class of one went back to her hard labor job the toddler built a five block tall tower. Seeing the tower tall and straight the child giggled and knocked it down.