I never said he failed mathematics. However, his sister said that he wasn't good at the easy part of mathematics. For those who missed it the first time, here it is again...

"(Albert) never was much good at the 'easy' part of mathematics. To shine, he had to move on to the 'hard' part.' In adult life his mathematical intuition was recognised as extraordinary and he could handle deftly the most difficult of tensor calculus, but it appears that arithmetic calculation continued to be an area of comparative weakness." ~ Maja Einstein"


For those who apparently don't really know anything at all about people who are gifted/LD, or how such people are classified by and handle by the schools, and who have also apparently not bothered to read the links I provided on the subject, it is not necessary for a student to fail at a particular subject for them to be considered learning disabled if they are also gifted. All that is necessary is for there to be a marked discrepancy between their abilities in the area of their giftedness and any other area. For Einstein to have been as incredibly advanced as he was in certain aspects of mathematics, but to be considered "weak" in simple mathematics would qualify him as gifted/LD in the public schools today. That is how my son was assessed. Had he not been as advanced in some areas as he was, his deficiencies wouldn't have been considered great enough to qualify him for special education services. It was the discrepancy between his giftedness and other areas that qualified him for special education services.

That's just the way it works, folks. Too bad if some people don't like it.