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Failing Our Geniuses
saintlupus writes "Time has an interesting article about the failure of the US educational system to properly deal with gifted students. For example, up to ten times as much money is spent nationwide on educating 'developmentally disabled' students as gifted ones. Does No Child Left Behind mean that nobody can get ahead, either?"
I feel like the education system totally failed me.
Err actually I went to a gifted & talented middle school (100 smartest kids in Houston). Then I went to a private Jesuit high school. Then I went to a relatively small public college in Dallas.
And now I make fat cash. I guess I really don't have anything to complain about.
Well my school sure failed me!
The days of the digital watch are numbered.
No, the proper quote here is from Caddyshack:
Judge Smails: Well, the world needs ditch diggers, too.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
I'm just curious here, because it sounds like the next thing you'll be talking about is your superweapon and plan to repopulate the earth with your lycra jumpsuit clad workers if only you can stop that meddlesome Mr. Bond....
/. found school similarly boring. Nonetheless, you are here as a result of your education and your own additional work. No point still being bitter, yes?
Seriously though -- I'm sure half the people reading this on
The problem with quotes on the internet, is that nobody bothers to check their veracity. -- Abraham Lincoln
The thing about it is, I learned those things too. I learned stuff like respect, politeness, and how to interact with people like equals. That took, what, two weeks? Not four years. School is a waste of time, and the fact remains that while I'd never say it out loud, the people around me _were_ violent stupid monkeys.
ResidntGeek
I think he means the school was overrun by chickens.
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