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Young Students Hiding Academic Talent To Avoid Bullying
jones_supa writes "The recent anti-bullying survey conducted by ABA brings up some interesting findings. According to it, more than 90% of the 1,000 11-16 year-olds surveyed said they had been bullied or seen someone bullied for being too intelligent or talented. Almost half of children and young people (49.5%) have played down a talent for fear of being bullied, rising to 53% among girls. One in 10 (12%) said they had played down their ability in science and almost one in five girls (18.8%) and more than one in 10 boys (11.4%) are deliberately underachieving in maths – to evade bullying. Worryingly, this means our children and young people are shying away from academic achievement for fear of victimization."
Ah yes, the perfect illustration of the reason why some may dislike "intellectuals". In two short sentences you managed to include prejudice, elitism, stereotyping, parochialism and get modded +5 to boot. Good for you.
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Those that bullied us bullied us because they felt inferior. They INSTINCTIVELY KNEW that they are inferior, but their ego just won't that happened.
That explains Slashdot's constant attacks on people who are rich, or companies that make money.
Just like we were called nerds because we did well in maths, so we will call those with charisma "douchebags" and those successful in business "greedy corporates". At Slashdot we call the police "stupid", call MS users "sheep", and we call others who didn't do as well academically in school "inferior".
Who's guilty of bullying? And whose narcissistic nature is incapable of realising the irony in declaring superiority because of a higher physics score in junior high?