Anti-Elitism Toward Gifted Kids Needs To Stop

[Dory Berkowitz-Bukowski]

I graduated both grade school and college a year early.

i r gifted. and special.

mostly special.

I finished college 1 year late, and I'm about the start university 2 years late.

I took drugs. and was homeless.

mostly took drugs.

 

[Dharma1521]

I finished college 1 year late, and I'm about the start university 2 years late.

I took drugs. and was homeless.

mostly took drugs.

I meant that I graduated in 3 years as opposed to 4.

 

[JAXvillain]

I meant that I graduated in 3 years as opposed to 4.

and then what happened?

 

[Dharma1521]

and then what happened?

I'm not doing anything fantastic. But I'm proud of where I am in life.

I don't have a Harvey Birdman collection or anything.


Ugh I'm just jealous I want a collection so bad.

 

[Duke]

You can always work on collecting men off the internet.

 

[zengirl]

You can always work on collecting men off the internet.

That is the most overrated collection of all time.

 

[Atan Nolme]

That is the most overrated collection of all time.

You truly would know this.

 

[zengirl]

You truly would know this.

isn't that the truth?

Well I guess everyone has to have a skill

 

[APRIL]

Whores, the whole lot of you.

 

[Sarcasmo]

I may have been gifted. No one knows. What I excelled at was not trying. I graduated dead middle of my class.

 

[thrawn]

I may have been gifted. No one knows. What I excelled at was not trying.

I was pretty good at the not trying thing also. It was ingrained in me from birth that you don't seek higher education, highschool was satisfactory. That way you can make just enough money to support yourself while preaching. I resent the fact that I was gullible enough to do what my parents told me I should do.

My parents were cool with sending me to school a year early, they were cool with me taking 6th and 7th grades at the same time(awkward! An hour or two in the morning with grade school then I had to leave that class to mingle with 7th graders the rest of the day). They were okay with me doing the same thing in highschool but weren't ok with me going to college.

All of that was easy for me, I didn't have to try. I only did enough to get by. My parents taught me mediocre. I despise it now.

 

[Atan Nolme]

I was pretty good at the not trying thing also. It was ingrained in me from birth that you don't seek higher education, highschool was satisfactory. That way you can make just enough money to support yourself while preaching. I resent the fact that I was gullible enough to do what my parents told me I should do.

My parents were cool with sending me to school a year early, they were cool with me taking 6th and 7th grades at the same time(awkward! An hour or two in the morning with grade school then I had to leave that class to mingle with 7th graders the rest of the day). They were okay with me doing the same thing in highschool but weren't ok with me going to college.

All of that was easy for me, I didn't have to try. I only did enough to get by. My parents taught me mediocre. I despise it now.

Damn that is seriously fucked up. Both of my parents highly stressed the importance of an education while growing up.

 

[tre]

Damn that is seriously fucked up. Both of my parents highly stressed the importance of an education while growing up.

As did mine. So much so that my brother spent four years of university changing majors before deciding he had no idea what he wanted to do with his life and dropped out.

 

[Sarcasmo]

My parents didn't really go either way. My dad has a PhD, but he never harped about college. They let me do my own thing, and now here I am unhappy. As an American I must pass the buck and blame someone other than myself.

 

[zengirl]

I got grounded for getting a B on my report card in 2nd grade.

I didn't get anything but A's after that

 

[thrawn]

My parents didn't really go either way. My dad has a PhD, but he never harped about college. They let me do my own thing, and now here I am unhappy. As an American I must pass the buck and blame someone other than myself.

I'm not blaming anyone but myself for what happened. I was the one who bought into the propaganda they spewed because I thought it was the right thing to do. It was a sheltered childhood. With a little foresight and what I know now I could have planned for college.

Whatever I say now explaining my life back then is nothing more than an excuse. So it doesn't matter. Here I am and I'm doing what I can. And I'm happy.

 

[thrawn]

I got grounded for getting a B on my report card in 2nd grade.

I didn't get anything but A's after that

My only problem was handwriting. I always had really really bad grades in handwriting. The difference between honor roll and merit roll was the handwriting grade I received.

 

[tre]

My only problem was handwriting. I always had really really bad grades in handwriting. The difference between honor roll and merit roll was the handwriting grade I received.

I had trouble using scissors because I'm a lefty, and it gave my first B. I was pissed.

 

[Sarcasmo]

I'm not blaming anyone but myself for what happened. I was the one who bought into the propaganda they spewed because I thought it was the right thing to do. It was a sheltered childhood. With a little foresight and what I know now I could have planned for college.

Whatever I say now explaining my life back then is nothing more than an excuse. So it doesn't matter. Here I am and I'm doing what I can. And I'm happy.

I recently confronted the prospect of finishing that degree I started 7 years ago. Spending money in gigantic chunks sucks though. Sometimes I really, really wish we were a socialist country.

 

[JAXvillain]

I had trouble using scissors because I'm a lefty, and it gave my first B. I was pissed.

no leftorium in your town?