But can you explain the "never get an A" thing to me?
#86 | Posted by pragmatist at 2011-12-29 12:29 PM | Reply | Flag:
Sure. Having an IQ that's off the charts isn't fun. In 4th grade teachers identified me as a problem for not paying attention to the teacher. On the way home after a 3rd hearing test that I passed with flying colors, dad asked me "WTF?".
I said the teacher wan't teaching anything new and I was board. He said ooohhhh I get it. Then he asked if I ever tried answering the questions the teacher asked. I said yea and that I always had the right answer first but she just ignored me and called on someone else who gave the wrong answer. He said hmmmmm ok I get it... YOU ARE IN TROUBLE - but not with me. If you want to stay in school with 'normal' kids you'd best pay attention close and do what I say - or you'll end up in special ed with the retards. His key points were
1. Always "look" like I was paying attention while using my imagination to keep self-entertained.
2. NEVER GET As or perfect scores because it will challenge the teachers and creat envy-based hatred (boy did I learn that was true the hard way in both 12th, college, and work-life).
3. ALWAYS try to "be like everybody else" while in a classroom environment. Don't be too-good, too-bad, too-smart, etc.
12th grade honors math was an EVIL EXPERIENCE of #2 too. The teacher believed in hard-work for grades but I knew every homework-problem in real time. So I usually got myself sent to the board to do one of them rather than getting my hw checked, or did it in the 10 minuts it took him to get to my desk... and he knew it, and envied me.... SO...
On sr skip day my frieds were waiting outside his classroom for me to finish the last regular test of the year. I was sure I aced it too because I had become annoyed with his homework gotcha attitudes and started letting my brian show a little too much... I also aced the final.
A month later I got my grades in the mail. It said I got a 69 in honors math. My parents were pissed too - they knew I had a high 80s average just like dad said should keep in order to be college eligable, etc... So we went to the principal (in July). He went to the teachers office and found the grade-book as well as boxes with the other students tests. Mine weren't in the boxes. The grade book also had smudge marks for both the last test and the final. Last test had an entry of 0 and the final had a 50.
The principal's solution was that I re-took the final exam a year later. So I did and aced it and moved on. BUT, 2 years later my sister got that same SOB for math and she's just ordinary at it. He had her after school every day and she cried every night. She survived ok and graduated college too - but I for one am glad that SOB died a few years after that. IDK what killed him but I'm certain this world is better off without him. well hmmmm I guess that just means the attitude he delivered still pisses me off.
