For me, it was realizing that while I was smart, the shit level of schooling was more an impediment to me gaining the skills needed to continue excelling and I continue to be surrounded by absolute dipshits wherever I go.
In school, I didn’t have to study to pass and there was no real incentive to learn how to. This bit me when it came to university because the lectures didn’t cover everything that was to be tested on. Turns out, trying is a skill I never needed until then.
Then, in the workforce, I’m constantly exhausted dealing with people who are at best functionally literate and I have to cater to their understanding of literally everything. No desire to either understand the problem or fix the root cause, just make the thing do what they want right then.
is this going to be me in the future ;-;
I’m born and raised in rural northern Nevada population 4000ish. I barely graduated high school and went straight into a manual labor job. I feel like I’m a goddamn Nostradamus or Albert Einstein here sometime.
Winnemucca be like that
Ely actually too…
Let’s be honest, it’s pretty much the entire state. We’re* not 49th in k-12 education for nothing!
*Although I moved to WA a few years ago
Anything north of Clark county is technically Kentucky.
Here’s the thing: we can’t ALL have been the smartest kids in our classes. It’s just so unlikely.
We were the generic background idiots in someone else’s success story all along.
With the barriers to entry that Lemmy has it’s not that unlikely. It’s like an incel going onto 8chan and saying, we can’t all be the most edgy people we know.
According to this website there are only around 40-70k daily active users (monthly vs semiannual). If you look at total users we’re sitting on about 1.3 million with 11 million posts per day and 23 million comments per day.
So 0.015% of the world population on an obscure site which is not mainstream accessible.
EDIT: Just because you were one of the smartest people in your class doesn’t mean you are “smart.” I would argue that it says more about the other kids in your class than it does you, most people are fucking stupid.
See!? I warned you I wasn’t the smartest.
You’re unique, just like everyone else.
It’s sort of one of my favorite things about us.
“We’re all individuals!”
“I’m not.”
We are all snowflakes.
Big fish in a small pond.
Guessing I’m not the only one in here that had a similar pathway with video games. Maybe games in general, as chess was similar.
In my defense, Ft worth was a big town
In my country there are no advanced people and you can’t really fast forward years of education. I know a couple of famous cases, but is not something that happens all the time. My family treated me as a special kid for so many reasons, and being “smart” was one of them. Had to travel to the big capital city to study a bachelor in science, there was no way around it, because the expenses were mostly covered by this public university, thank god.
The first year was hard. I failed some classes even, and seriously questioned myself if I had it in me to get my degree. Education is just better in big cities with museums, cultural activities everyday, bookstores and libraries. Back in the town I grew up we only had the little municipal library, others existed but weren’t open to the public, and one or two bookstores with best sellers. In my university we had one library with several levels just for the students, there were books and journals, maps, a digital library too, etc. You need to be curious, yes, but the environment to pique that curiosity is very important too.
That’s what every Balzac novel is about
An IQ of 100 is ment to be directly in the middle, so roughly 50% of the population is below that. An IQ of 100 isn’t that bright, so think about the incredible masses of dumb people.
So, yeah. It’s not impossible that you were the one-eyed among the blind.
Jesus, there’s some real intellectual elitism being displayed in this thread. Like I understand that the American education system is shitty and a large portion of the population is just functionally literate, and I understand the frustration of having to deal with those types of people and having to explain things to them. But, that’s one thing, it’s another completely different thing to call them idiots or see them as lesser. They’re most likely not idiots, it probably just means they has less help and/or less experiences than you did as a kid to better understand some of the things you did. You should never look down upon someone for being less intelligent or less educated than you. Those things are not the entirety of what make up a person’s worth. There’s things like creativity, emotional intelligence, etc. Everyone deserves the same base level of respect, and if you think you’re the smartest person in a room bar none, you’re actually the idiot.
Gifted And Talented was just segregation with extra steps.
You could buy your way in. You could be placed in the group by referral, without any testing. We had a developmentally disabled kid in our GT class, because his parents were rich and GT offered your kid far more resources than the standard school program.
The lowest common denominator of GT programs wasn’t IQ or GPA or number of spelling bee wins, but address and family income.
This is a highly limited context of your experience and situated when you went to school and where you went. I can only talk about the TAG program in my district and they use testing and are very strict about it.
Our child was referred by a teacher and we were encouraged to pursue it. There’s more to say about the program and it’s role in society, but these type of comments preclude a discussion on child needs and wealth.
preclude a discussion on child needs
They indict the system precisely because of how it distributes resources for the children of Haves and Have-Nots.
Our child was referred by a teacher
“I was told that my kid isn’t like other kids” is always the bait at the end of these hooks. You’re not segregating, you’re elevating.
No real need to look back and ask why the broader structural issues of class size, teacher experience, and class room hours aren’t addressed holistically. Maybe the kids you left behind just don’t need those resources like your precious little muffin does.
First, fuck you.
You were not part of the discussion at to assume that we didn’t discuss these issue at our table is disgusting. Second, where the fuck do you get off thinking that our district supports these programs materially and that a teacher recommendation was sufficient enough to place in the non-segregated TAG program.
I can’t emphasize this enough. Fuck you
You were not part of the discussion
Clearly I am now.
where the fuck do you get off thinking that our district supports these programs materially and that a teacher recommendation was sufficient enough to place in the non-segregated TAG program.
Because its exhaustively well-documented.
I can’t emphasize this enough. Fuck you
Seems like your kid is in a healthy and loving household.
You don’t know shit about my district or my family and you can fuck right off. You’re a callous know it all and I have no time for you and your low stakes arm chair analysis.
Isn’t this basically the premise of Idiocracy?
No the premise of that is that a totally average servicemember in every way is forgotten about in an experiment and is unconscious for 500 years, only to awaken with his prostitute experiment mate, as the two smartest people on earth. A documentary.
You were gifted with a monkeys paw smarter than most people but not smart enough to do anything great so you got stuck around the people you were smarter than to watch them struggle at the self checkout
