I fit all of the requirements, I fit them when I was in school and right now. I play Quake and Cthulhu with my other geeky friends. I've been called all the names, freak, geek, nerd and loser. Unfortunatly the ones who should have to pay for this crap are the ones teasing the nerds. People don't want to look at it that way. In all honesty MOST nerds don't like breaking rules, or making trouble. I was usually angry when I was in school, not from the people picking on me, thought that had a part in it. What angered me the most was when I would talk to a teacher, LET THEM KNOW THAT THERE WAS A PROBLEM and they wouldn't listen. Not the constant teasing, but the fact nobody would listen to my plea for help. Look at racisim, and if anyone called someone a racial slur when I was still in high school they would be suspended for the remainder of the quarter. There was a zero tolerance for that. What it came down to was a different kind of prejudice. It didn't envolve skin color, it was your size, taste in fasion, or choice of friends. The school administration wouldn't intervene when a jock would be pounding my face because a friend of a cousin of an uncle of a college student said I was spreading rumors about their graphic involment with a salmon they caught int he river. It's pathetic when you think about it.
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I fit all of the requirements, I fit them when I was in school and right now. I play Quake and Cthulhu with my other geeky friends. I've been called all the names, freak, geek, nerd and loser. Unfortunatly the ones who should have to pay for this crap are the ones teasing the nerds. People don't want to look at it that way. In all honesty MOST nerds don't like breaking rules, or making trouble. I was usually angry when I was in school, not from the people picking on me, thought that had a part in it. What angered me the most was when I would talk to a teacher, LET THEM KNOW THAT THERE WAS A PROBLEM and they wouldn't listen. Not the constant teasing, but the fact nobody would listen to my plea for help. Look at racisim, and if anyone called someone a racial slur when I was still in high school they would be suspended for the remainder of the quarter. There was a zero tolerance for that. What it came down to was a different kind of prejudice. It didn't envolve skin color, it was your size, taste in fasion, or choice of friends. The school administration wouldn't intervene when a jock would be pounding my face because a friend of a cousin of an uncle of a college student said I was spreading rumors about their graphic involment with a salmon they caught int he river. It's pathetic when you think about it.