No, but it's clear who's winning this war now. Hint: They didn't play football.
In high school, I didn't have a single real friend in my graduating class. I had a very few friends who graduated a year before me; I had a few who graduated one or two years after me. But being absolutely literal, there was not a single person in my graduating class who came close to treating me like a friend. Not one.Close enough.
To stay bitter about 2 decade old offends and insults, real or imagined is not impressive mental hygiene.I guess I missed the part where the author tried to impress you.
I fail to see why it would be inconceivable. Even in this thread, there's been a person who said that he was too big to be bullied."Even when I shot up in height, to nearly 5 foot eleven between junior and senior year, I weighed under 120 pounds."So things would have been better if he weighed more?
Wow - I'm so surprised that this happens in real life. I guess it's just something that I have seen on TV. I'm from Malaysia, and have never been bullied. In fact, I was one of the popular ones in school.Sure, the author admits some of his behaviors may have made him an easy target, but why is there a stigma (for lack of a better term) attached to intelligence & scholastic acheivement?
Scoring 100% in a Math test makes you a mini-celebrity and getting high grades and scores makes you more popular, not less. I don't understand why people would be ostracized for being intelligent?
"Christ, what a loser."Remind me again why he should attend the reunion? Because people change after high school, and everyone becomes just so much more mature?
"I thought this was literally about our High School dweeb who suffered many of the same things. I recently became friends with him on FB and he appears to still be a huge dork."
"Two words: I'M FAT."
"HAWT"
"He looks like a giant, balding bird with a ponytail."
You could always go the Homer Simpson route:You could have just put a circle with the word "YOU" inside it and a line through it. Someone should just print a bunch of those so high school boys unsure how to break up with their girlfriends could just stick them on their lockers or whatever.A Terrible Llama: Somehow, the worst part of that isn't that you broke up with her by leaving a note on her windshield, it's that it was a Post-It.Tell me about it. I couldn't even be bothered by writing out a longer letter detailing my reasons. I think I had room for 20-25 words and that's it
Dear Baby,posted by Flunkie at 8:14 AM on July 18, 2009 [1 favorite]
Welcome to Dumpsville. Population: You.
He who angers you controls you.Trite.
"I've come to believe that genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us... I began to wonder, reluctantly, whether it was possible that being in school itself was what was dumbing them down. Was it possible I had been hired not to enlarge children's power, but to diminish it? That seemed crazy on the face of it, but slowly I began to realize that the bells and the confinement, the crazy sequences, the age-segregation, the lack of privacy, the constant surveillance, and all the rest of the national curriculum of schooling were designed exactly as if someone had set out to *prevent* children from learning how to think and act, to coax them into addiction and dependent behavior."posted by LooseFilter at 11:30 AM on July 18, 2009 [4 favorites]
– John Taylor Gatto
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