So, maybe the problem could be reduced by grouping students with other students of similar academic ability. Of course, this won't solve the problem. It'll probably allow the problem to continue.
You're right. It won't work. I can tell you this from personal experience. I got placed into the gifted program at my school in second grade, and even there I was picked on. It was bizarre, because we would have these group counseling type things were everyone would talk about all the abuse that they went through at their old schools (gifted was in a seperate school), and then these same people, right afterwards, would turn around and pull my chair out from under me as I was about to sit down at lunch or something. You'd think they'd know better! Just because I was a little more shy than most of them. It made no sense. Even I joined in on the abuse on occasion--if one of the "white trash" at our high school (people who didn't bathe regularly and lived in trailers and such) was being harrassed, I'd join right in and make fun of them too. I didn't really think about it much at the time, I was just doing it because everyone else was, but later on I would wonder how I could do such a thing, since these same people pick on me too.
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This thread on the python-dev mailing list talks about the unification project (code-named "Parrot" :)
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http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/200
There was also a thread on comp.lang.python about it:
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There's an (official?) icon at .
http://www.rubycentral.com/
it's NOT a cached copy of the article, it's pr0n.
So, maybe the problem could be reduced by grouping students with other students of similar academic ability. Of course, this won't solve the problem. It'll probably
allow the problem to continue.
You're right. It won't work. I can tell you this from personal experience. I got placed into the gifted program at my school in second grade, and even there I was picked on. It was bizarre, because we would have these group counseling type things were everyone would talk about all the abuse that they went through at their old schools (gifted was in a seperate school), and then these same people, right afterwards, would turn around and pull my chair out from under me as I was about to sit down at lunch or something. You'd think they'd know better! Just because I was a little more shy than most of them. It made no sense. Even I joined in on the abuse on occasion--if one of the "white trash" at our high school (people who didn't bathe regularly and lived in trailers and such) was being harrassed, I'd join right in and make fun of them too. I didn't really think about it much at the time, I was just doing it because everyone else was, but later on I would wonder how I could do such a thing, since these same people pick on me too.