Topic: I was homeschooled... (Read 7877 times)

Rosencrantz · « **Reply #20 on:** May 01, 2009, 03:43:13 PM »

Quote from: Kazz on May 01, 2009, 03:04:23 PM

I responded to all the "you're clearly a genius" talk in K through 6 by failing at least one class a year from then until now.

Er, yeah, I did the same thing too. As soon as I started high school I dropped down to a 2. something GPA and failed math three years in a row (I had to retake each class in summer school and proceeded to get a D each time).

Cyan Prime · « **Reply #21 on:** May 01, 2009, 04:05:12 PM »

I don't like this thread.

Brentai · « **Reply #22 on:** May 01, 2009, 04:49:02 PM »

All the few friends I managed to make were in GATE, yeah, despite it being almost a more massive waste of time than regular classes. Then see above re: moving a bunch. Once I hit 6th+ where there wasn't really gifted program to speak of is when my social life was literally tossed into the toilet.

Büge · « **Reply #23 on:** May 01, 2009, 06:16:11 PM »

I was in gifted classes, but I had to give them up because (a) They never did anything terribly engrossing, and (b) I hadn't been diagnosed with ADD yet.

Romosome · « **Reply #24 on:** May 01, 2009, 06:29:12 PM »

Quote from: Dr. Friday on May 01, 2009, 03:03:08 PM

I didn't mind GATE so much as I minded the horrendous fucking arrogance of myself and all the other kids because it meant we were better than everyone else

It helped that our parents and teachers relentlessly reinforced this idea by continually telling us the other kids were mean because "they were jealous"

It didn't help that since the other kids treated me like shit for being an odd duck to begin with I clung to this idea for comfort, reinforcing the whole thing.

I think I've already told my story about my mom's views on public school though.

Arc · « **Reply #25 on:** May 01, 2009, 06:33:43 PM »

Quote from: Dr. Friday on May 01, 2009, 02:30:35 PM

GATE

Is this the scene on the basketball court where we all remember that we grew up together?

Romosome · « **Reply #26 on:** May 01, 2009, 06:35:26 PM »

WE WERE ALL IN THE SAME GIFTED ORPHANAGE

Friday · « **Reply #27 on:** May 01, 2009, 06:56:01 PM »

I AM A SPECIAL CHILD WITH SPECIAL NEEDS

Friday · « **Reply #28 on:** May 01, 2009, 07:06:48 PM »

ooh ooh dibs on being Quistis

Kazz can be Zell, Arc can be Laguna, Brentai can be Squall, and Romo can be Angelo

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #29 on:** May 01, 2009, 07:07:57 PM »

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haha, kazz was adopted

sei · « **Reply #30 on:** May 01, 2009, 07:14:11 PM »

Quote from: Dr. Friday on May 01, 2009, 02:30:35 PM

Everyone here who was in GATE, raise your hand

Guild · « **Reply #31 on:** May 01, 2009, 07:44:32 PM »

I am the Nerdmaster. Are you the GATEkeeper?

Kayma · « **Reply #32 on:** May 01, 2009, 07:48:14 PM »

Opted out of the gifted programs in elementary school because, well, I was smart enough to know social suicide when I saw it.

Plus, totally lazy. I managed to B my way through middle, high school, and college with the bare minimum of work and attendance. Score!

Alex · « **Reply #33 on:** May 01, 2009, 07:54:45 PM »

Quote from: Guild on May 01, 2009, 01:21:23 PM

I decided that other people my age were jerks and only grownups were worth talking to.

This happened to me too for similar reasons. I never did and never really have grasped the importance of any of the stuff my peers found to be a big fat hairy deal.

Prom? Waste of $300 when I could go buy something nice instead of renting a tux. Any given social gathering at school was sort of like that.

Maybe it was all the shit I got for not buying into it and being different like everyone else. But as a result, 9 times out of 10, I'll fucking hate young'uns more than the average adult.

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jeez slow down let me catch up guys god

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #34 on:** May 01, 2009, 07:57:43 PM »

Oh, I've been looking forward to the day I become a crotchety old man for almost as long as I can remember. (It just works so much better than being a crotchety young man.)

Doom · « **Reply #35 on:** May 01, 2009, 08:06:03 PM »

Just be this guy, Bongo.

Brentai · « **Reply #36 on:** May 01, 2009, 08:16:37 PM »

Quote from: Dr. Friday on May 01, 2009, 07:06:48 PM

Brentai can be Squall

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Whatever.

yyler · « **Reply #37 on:** May 01, 2009, 09:42:54 PM »

In my case GATE classes weren't social suicide so much as just more homework. Didn't realize that for a while though, when a friend of mine who wasn't in GATE confessed her history syllabus charted her class studying China... and that was it. Our class was doing China, Russia, most of Europe, and then swinging around to South America if we could. I got pretty pissed.

By the end, I was in a high school based around doing projects where I just did whatever I wanted. One of my projects was literally writing a thesis on Lewis Carroll, and another was simply reading a pile of books and telling my teacher what I thought (verbally). We had to get internships, and that's how I became the assistant internet director of a major gubernatorial campaign (which failed) at the age of 16. After that, I didn't get another internship. Who cared. I graduated with a 4.0, valedictorian, and my speech was about how the school was bullshit even though it was trying so hard not to be. Colleges loved me when I applied, but LIFE HAD OTHER PLANS

Niku · « **Reply #38 on:** May 01, 2009, 11:21:55 PM »

i was in the gifted classes here

and then my fifth grade teacher took like ten of us out into the hallway when we got normal kid scores on some test or another and screamed, red in the face, at us for like twenty minutes straight, berating and belittling us until we were all crying wrecks

a few years later i saw him figure skating in purple tights SO GUESS WHO LIKES DICKS IN THE ASS NOW, MR. JERK

sei · « **Reply #39 on:** May 02, 2009, 02:03:52 AM »

hamburger-tan?

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