@Whats_Up_Its_Brooklyn @PatienceKills
what kind of gifted kid were y'all. were you the 'im a prodigy in everything but math' kid, the 'only math and science' kid, teacher's pet, etc….
i was everything but math and also i was the gifted kid that teachers either ADORED or DESPISED and it was all based on whether i liked them or not
I was the "brilliant in most classes, lazy in math" "why don't you apply yourself more?" flavor. Teachers loved me because I was smart and also made jokes, I could walk out of science class to go to the bathroom and I wouldn't even get a tiny condemnation. Also I was part of the first non-improv DI team to make it to Globals, and part of the first team to make it onto the stage there too. I also won an award for my involvement in student government.
I was gifted in everything until 5th grade and all the teachers hated me. My parents would spank attack me, but we don't need child service here if I got bad grades which were A- and lower. I mean I guess I'm an average student now… thats such a lie
I got 1st flute for states, won some writing competitions, but that's about it.
'you are smart, you just don't want to admit it' is something i hear constantly and is so funny to me considering i don't know anything
also do you ever get the like. fuck ykno where you were really good at bullshitting everything and you wonder if that's the only reason you ever actually passed classes let alone that high?
also shout out to all the teachers that let me sit on my desk instead of at it
my people
OH and also "big fish, small pond". I was the defacto "smart kid" at my Catholic K-8, but once I went to public school I had a harder time to due my anxiety. I'm doing better now, although I did end up dropping chemistry due to the stress it caused me.
I was gifted in everything until 5th grade and all the teachers hated me. My parents would spank
attack me, but we don't need child service hereif I got bad grades which were A- and lower. I mean I guess I'm an average student now…thats such a lie
oh geez dude. my parents were just super proud. i feel bad now though, for constantly letting them down even though they're so proud i managed to get a c on any of my classes
oh i know! all you gifted/former gifted kids with bad parents! i'm adopting you now and no you cant stop me
Bruh, I grew up in a catholic middle school which just shut down last week.
Those writing competitions I mentioned earlier were about Religion
I am the biggest atheist in my class
I can't believe I bullshited my way to 1st place its actually funny.
All my elementary teachers hated me so much like I would get in detention for things that were so trivial.
When I was in 1st grade I got in detention for spilling water on the teacher's dice
In 2nd, I was framed for something I didn't do
I was always separated from the class, never got the chance to interact with anyone until 5th
'you are smart, you just don't want to admit it' is something i hear constantly and is so funny to me considering i don't know anything
also do you ever get the like. fuck ykno where you were really good at bullshitting everything and you wonder if that's the only reason you ever actually passed classes let alone that high?
also shout out to all the teachers that let me sit on my desk instead of at it
Ugh I got the whole "you're not bad at math, you just don't like it" like yeah, I know I don't like it, the reason I don't like it is because it confuses me.
Dude I bullshat a Hamlet essay in 8th grade and it was wild, honestly I don't try too hard on my essays because I hate not being allowed to write them in a snarky first person POV. So I have a weird essay writing style and I pass them, I just…don't put in a lot of effort.
I am the "You have so much potential" + Bullshitting rooms of people at a time that I knew everything and was Super Smart + spits random stuff and get A's half the time.
I was apparently really good with language at first, learned to read at the same time i learned to walk, and picked up sounds pretty fast.
That disappeared quickly though, as shown by my weekly duolingo report
Then suddenly poof I can draw pretty decently, but nothing else
See the plus side about this is that people still think that I'm smart and I get payed to do their homework. It's honestly a great income
Also as much as I hate standardized testing, I'm really fucking good at it
I took some online tests for school waaay back in 1st grade, and I kept getting hard questions since I answered correctly and went "oh, if I answer wrong I won't have hard questions!" so I purposely bombed and got in trouble
The STAR test repeats most of the questions, so it's pretty easy for me to remember the answers, and I usually score in a really high percentile.
I'm of the "I was gifted in elementary school and up through ninth grade and things got progressively less interesting and I don't care but I can do well in all of my classes by bullshitting my way through everything" variety. I'm technically still 'gifted' in everything but social studies (and creativity apparently :/), but classes give me anxiety. Honors is too difficult and CP is way too easy and both make me cry
My school tried out standardized testing for students online and it was the most bullshit thing ever, Like no one had the same questions, it was different for everyone and it would give you the randomist shit. Like the dumbest kid would get 100 because they got 1st-grade math while I over here got High School Geometry
See, they didn't have an AP or even Honors English 10 for me so I just suffered through it
The only good thing about English 10 was that I was able to write the Lavinia story for an assignment and ended up taking third out of like 25 at a competition for it
And my teacher gave me a B lmao
My school tried out standardized testing for students online and it was the most bullshit thing ever, Like no one had the same questions, it was different for everyone and it would give you the randomist shit. Like the dumbest kid would get 100 because they got 1st-grade math while I over here got High School Geometry
We've done online for years now and works fine for us. Huh.
Also as much as I hate standardized testing, I'm really fucking good at it
Ew same
Me, realizing how many of my characters are Former/Gifted Kids: D:
fun stories from sage's years of school before dropping out
in fourth grade i went to a gifted class in a school i had no business going to. my teacher was a bitch who's mentor always subbed. one day i couldn't do the math worksheet bcs ykno, bad at it(i literally went to a special class for it that year but that's a different weird story) and so the sub told me that i couldn't eat my lunch until i did. nearly a full worksheet. she let me go get my lunch(rip to the nuggets) and then made me sit with it in the hall and work on the math that had me in tears. honestly thank god for isaac if it werent for him i wouldnt have gotten the five minutes to eat
in seventh grade i was hated by the security guard and detention monitor and my social studies teacher. the latter gave me detention for telling a kid to shut up while i was presenting because he would NOT stop talking. the detention monitor gave me a detention but i have no clue why lmao. also yelled at me and told me my green day american idiot shirt was inappropriate and to cover it. the seventh grade science teacher later told me he loved my shirt
eighth grade i brought a tiny knife to school. i used it to sharpen my pencils because i didnt have a sharpener and was weird. my arch nemesis(allegedly i'm not sure if he did or not but i'd bet money) ratted on me. i was pulled aside by the choir teacher, told her i had used a broken pair of scissors. when she asked to have them i was momentarily panicked and SOMEHOW remembered the razor blade i had found in my dad's car and taken because sharp. i pulled that out and was like 'okay, i lied, because i didnt want to get in trouble for having this…' she sent me on my merry way and then i was pulled out of algebra by the SECURITY GUARD(also helped further my badass rep) and was then subsequently suspended for a whole day after spinning a story about finding the blade in the hall and picking it up so no one stepped on it or took it for bad purposes
My school tried out standardized testing for students online and it was the most bullshit thing ever, Like no one had the same questions, it was different for everyone and it would give you the randomist shit. Like the dumbest kid would get 100 because they got 1st-grade math while I over here got High School Geometry
We've done online for years now and works fine for us. Huh.
Idk, since it was a catholic private school, we followed a different curriculum or some shit. I honestly have no idea
Also as much as I hate standardized testing, I'm really fucking good at it
Ew same
I mean, I kind of enjoy taking them but I hate them on principle because they don't include other types of learning
I'm predominantly an auditory learner (secondarily a visual one), what about y'all?
I panic because of the pattern of the circles.
Like if I got 5 B's in a row, I knew something was up even though they were all probably correct.
I think I got like an above-average for standardized testing