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Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Pika I'm curious
how many people in your UW program
are actually impresssive
Maybe of my class of like 60, there were like 4-6 who I think will do some really interesting physics/math stuff
I typically was in the top 20% of the bell curve for most classes
and those were the people way above me
same tbh
EE program in my college, 2 people were genuinely impressive
out of the ~30 in my year
idk Max
I think "good at school" is different from being smart, and those are both different from being "impressive"
idk what to label "good at school as" because I really don't think it matters
For the record, I was never called gifted
or in special classes
if that's "book smart" that's a fine label
but I really don't think it's meaningful
because for me anyways, elementary school there were a few, then I was in a special program in middle school full of only "gifted", then in highschool I went to a speciality program for technology where everyone was suppoused to be the cream of the crop at the school.
and out of those people always there was always like the general mass of people, and maybe one or two people who felt kinda average
but then there was always 2-3 absolute standout people that people joked about being the smartest, all always got 100s or perfect grades etc.
When I was in elementary school I would always be done the math the teacher was explaining before she explained it so people wanted to be in my group for the group math activities
I always remember ES fractions
because me and one other smart kid, just understood it
Replying to taxes #tzfi because for me anyways, elementary school there were a few, then I was in a special program in middle school full of only "gifted", then in highschool I went to a speciality program for technology where everyone was suppoused to be the cream of the crop at the school. and out of those people always there was always like the general mass of people, and maybe one or two people who felt kinda average but then there was always 2-3 absolute standout people that people joked about being the smartest, all always got 100s or perfect grades etc.
one of these standout from my school is also now dead
and the rest of the class had to listen to a 1-hour analogy about bikini swimsuits
The only standout elementary kids are the ones who skip to do uni at age 12
Max
I'm the only Virginian here
the SOLs
should not be your benchmark for anything
... I don't really
not the SOLs
the SOLs are so bad
for elementary schoolers?
I feel like you can bin kids if you spend 5 minutes talking to them
and ES teachers do that
they sub-segregate within any class, esp the gifted ones
elementary school