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oh yeah my mistake
HOWEVER, the Smartest Man in the World is not on the side of Science!
DILEMMA
I say we measure the size of their heads to be sure.
Phrenology was dismissed as quackery several hundred years ago.
Your face was dismissed as shit several hundred years shut up.
Well, that's fine if that's your opinion. But personally, I feel schools at the early ages (kindergarten through about 5th grade) are much more for social development than actual intellectual development. I don't give a shit if a kid can do long division without trying and the other kids can't, you shouldn't be advancing him away from his peers at such an early age. It truly bothers me when I see young kids skipping several grades.
But, that's just me. I'm not complaining, as I said, I'm perfectly pleased with my life and I have not failed by any means. I just think too much emphasis is put on kids achieving things and being challenged at an age when they should basically just be learning to work with others and develop socially.
Once the kid gets old enough, yes, things should stratify. But, as I have said several times, I am talking about KIDS. Little people. NOT young adults.
I have a Phrenology bust. It's awesome.
BOOM, bitch!
Of course you'd say that...you have the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter!
take me now
With a Philoprogenitiveness lump like that? Not likely!
it is basically "do you want to interact with your peers or would you like us to put this whip to your back for essentially the next eight years"
dropping it was probably the best decision i made as a teenager but man i got shitty looks from teachers for the next two years
You're not even kidding
I hated IB so fucking much in school
It's for smart kids
And demolishing social lives and any form of spirit other than the spirit of work
international bacclaureate
it's like advanced high school because you scored high on some tests so now they want to seclude you from everyone and torture your ass non-stop throughout high school
which was fine when i got straight a's in it freshmen year and was a damn shut in but then you realize you won't get to enjoy your formative years pretty much at all
Neither of us heard anything about it after that so I guess we were comfortably mediocre. Either that or we were sexually molested and I supressed the traumatic memory by transforming it into some exam situation.
Either way.
that's essentially the idea
they expected you to do way more than just schoolwork too, like guilting you into joining student government and debate and having a compulsary 100 hours of community service before you passed
and i didn't have a car so fuck that shit
I forget the amount of hours of service NHS wanted but after heard about that and the essays I said fuck it as well. I wasn't trying for Ivy League or anything anyway.
I qualified for the Gifted Program, but also had to go to 'short bus' classes because of 'behavior issues' (some other kids kept trying to fight me. fortunetly, the Principal allowed me to leave school 5 minutes before anyone else so I had a head start) so I spent half the day in the Gifted program, the other half in the 'special' class.
On the PSAT/NMSQT I scored 99.9th percentile math, 99.7th verbal, with a selection index of 210. The second highest score in the history of the school district prior to that was 176.
I competed for some scholorships, with the FBLA club in a competition based on multiple choice tests, on the subject of "Computer Applications". I scored 98 out of 100; the second highest was 78. I actually studied for that test, even though I knew computers already. Which was the only way I could have scored so well since the questions were about utterly useless things such as magnetic core memory, COBOL, and Punchcard level technology, in the frigging 1990's. It wasn't supposed to be a 'history' test, it was just incredibly out of date.
They disqualified me because I must have cheated to do so well. and when I tried again the next year, they disqualified me for having won the prior year. So, no Scholarships, no Internship at IBM, No trip to Washington DC, or Anahiem CA for national level competition. At that point, after shrugging off the prior year cheating accusation (with no proof, or idea from them about how it was possible for me to have cheated) I stayed home from school for several weeks, and missed to many days to complete that school year; so I got permission to drop out of school, and get a GED instead.
After some years of performing terribly at various jobs, at the age of 23 I finally got diagnosed with ADHD. Just a few months before my genetic arthritis kicked in. so, ten years later, now that I finally have a medication combination that works for both Arthitis and ADHD, I'm finally looking at going to college.
I started hating you here.
He means the size of his head was too big for the scale.
Dong wrestling?
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Scienticians should start using those industrial head-measuring-devices like I see advertised on tee vee.
Women don't seem to do very well on it though.
went on ritalin for a while, didn't work, so i stopped taking it
i'm pretty ok now, must have been a misdiagnosis
I never knew the thigh master had a second function.
Fuck the system!
high school wasn't meant for people like us
all flipping off the man with our superior intellect by not doing the assignments or showing up for class because we're above that shit
all working some shitty desk job three years later
Man, it was a legitimate tackle as well.
What a cool story.
Fuck desks. I work at Best Buy. Selling cameras to some of the richest fuckers in the country.
did you used to be an angry little mexican kid
named josh?
I think I was fairly clear that the test only went up to 140; while the I.Q. 'Bell Curve' is mapped from 50 to 150. the term 'broke the scale' is what the tester told me later on. (I met him a few years ago, when I was going to vote at the polling place in the local school, and we got to talking about ADHD, I wondered why I wasn't diagnosed while I was in school).
I think my head is a fairly normal size. However, I do have no upper sinus cavity on my left side.