Take the smartest person you know. Now, take thirty one other people just like them, and put them in a class together.
What do you get?
IB. AC. AP. Call it whatever you want; the point is, you’ve just created a classroom of competitive gifted kids.
Now… take that class and put it in the richest district of the city. What do you have, now? My childhood. Competitive, gifted, and rich kids. Oops, sorry – I didn’t mean to say that! I meant to say competitive, gifted, and rich bitches and bastards.
I mean, seriously, IB. WTF were you thinking, creating a breeding ground for these things? I know kids that have had mental breakdowns over test marks that are in the 60%-range. I know kids that pray, fucking pray before presentations. I know kids that cheat shamelessly, not because it’s the difference between a pass or fail, but because it’s the difference between 92% and 98%. Searching for their next high; the next 100%, the next Honours With Distinction certificate.
And then it stretches father. You have spoiled rich kids, and as to be expected, they’re not the nicest bunch. Make them kids that have the top 5% of IQ scores in the province, and make them know it. What happens? You have eight year olds plotting (yes, plotting – full on, you-pissed-me-off-so-I’m-ruining-your-fucking-life plotting.) against each other; nine year olds “dating”, and ten year olds ostracising the poor (literally, without expansive assets) kid.
Really, this is just a prompt for comments. I want to know what you think about it – personally, I hate the idea of putting all the gifted kids in the same class. I mean, I like being one of them, and I like that all my classmates are about equal with me in terms of study habits and such, but I hate the fact that we are separated. I think, when you take a bunch of seven year olds and tell them they’re better than everyone else, it’s a recipe for destruction.
Fingers on the keypad, kids. I don’t care if it’s as simple as “I agree” or “I disagree”, or if it takes ten minutes and you end up with a four-paragraph page-long comment. I just want to hear what you all think about this!
Ready? Go.
