'Examination Day' by Henry Slesar

Examination Day is a short story which is written by Henry Slesar and I have read it during the English class. The setting took place in the future, and the main characther is a boy called Dickie. In Dickie's world, the government control everything and does not want people to be intelligent so that they won't seek revolution. In the story, every students at the age of 12 has to take a test which is to find how intelligent they are. If the child has overwhelmed the standard intelligent rate, he/she will be executed. This was the reason why Dickie's parents didn't like Dickie asking questions about the surroundings and gave him only comic books to read. The date of test day came, and Dickie's parents were extremly worried about Dickie's results. The concern of the parents came true, and Dickie had to be executed at the end of the story.
After reading the story, I thought that this could likely happen on near future and we should prevent it. Anyway, it was an interesting story to read and quite sad.