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UWM
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Registered: Mar 2001
Location: Here
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| quote: | Originally posted by Nou
I actually I didn't drop out.
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Spoken like a true intellectual.
Last edited by UWM on Apr-26-2006 at 17:24
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Apr-26-2006 17:15
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Aquarian
king of no pants
Registered: May 2005
Location: Laval, Quebec
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Do you know anyone...
| quote: | Originally posted by Falcon-X
hmmm yeah thats like one in a million, |
Far more than that. I wouldn't hesitate to say over half of them. The education system is designed to fit the 'average' people. Just try and imagine how depressing it would be to do your first grade 15 times over. When you understand faster than everybody else, you completely lose motivation.
I'm really not saying this to sound arrogant or pretentious, but I know this because i was one of them, and I spent a good portion of my social life being grouped with others who were exactly like that. In first grade, the program was such that most kids would learn to read and write properly within 8 to 10 months, but I did it in about 2 weeks, then came home and whined to my mom about how school sucked and everybody was too slow
Then they transfered me to a special school where the program was more advanced, and I did 5 years there. My grades were pretty much all between 95 and 100%. The problem is, there was no such high school program, so I had to go back into the regular program. Halfway through the first year, I was heavily depressed (and on anti-depressants), I was skipping over half of my classes, and failing everything. That went on throughout high school and it just got worse every year. Almost everyone I knew from my elementary school had dropped out after having gone through the same thing I did.
Reaching higher levels of eduation, it gets even harder, because you start getting bombarded with information, and you haven't the slightest clue how to study since you've never had to do it in your life.
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Apr-26-2006 17:45
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Sunsnail
Global Moderator

Registered: Sep 2004
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Do you know anyone...
| quote: | Originally posted by Aquarian
Far more than that. I wouldn't hesitate to say over half of them. The education system is designed to fit the 'average' people. Just try and imagine how depressing it would be to do your first grade 15 times over. When you understand faster than everybody else, you completely lose motivation.
I'm really not saying this to sound arrogant or pretentious, but I know this because i was one of them, and I spent a good portion of my social life being grouped with others who were exactly like that. In first grade, the program was such that most kids would learn to read and write properly within 8 to 10 months, but I did it in about 2 weeks, then came home and whined to my mom about how school sucked and everybody was too slow
Then they transfered me to a special school where the program was more advanced, and I did 5 years there. My grades were pretty much all between 95 and 100%. The problem is, there was no such high school program, so I had to go back into the regular program. Halfway through the first year, I was heavily depressed (and on anti-depressants), I was skipping over half of my classes, and failing everything. That went on throughout high school and it just got worse every year. Almost everyone I knew from my elementary school had dropped out after having gone through the same thing I did.
Reaching higher levels of eduation, it gets even harder, because you start getting bombarded with information, and you haven't the slightest clue how to study since you've never had to do it in your life. |
+1?
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Apr-26-2006 19:37
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