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I feel like we should find these kids and get them out of school where their time is being wasted. Let's get them into some proper practical training that lines up with their interests or hell, just hire them and teach them on the job. In fact, maybe we could do that for....all the kids?

"School is not a place for smart people" - Rich Sanchez

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Not sure that quoting Rick and Morty like it’s some kind of gospel is the best argument for education reform.

It was somewhat tongue in cheek - but only somewhat. But points for getting the reference.

The only thing more delicious than an unironically 'I got a big brain' Rick and Morty quote is when the person making the quote is super confident about how obscure it is.

Isn't that line from the very first episode of the whole show?

I don’t know that quoting cartoons signals “I got a big brain”. It’s fascinating though that people are commenting on the quote. I didn’t think that would resonate.

Because you should immediately mock anyone who might enjoy Rick and Morty and get that happiness feeling when someone recognized the quote from the show they watched which is fairly typical for any film or show someone has watched. Because everyone who watch that show think it's strictly limited to only high IQ individuals and watching, enjoying that show is a clear indicator of higher intelligence.

I read this 3 times and still can't parse what you're trying to say.

That quoting Rick and Morty in no way means they think they are intellectually superior or anything remotely to that. It can very well happen that some topic simply makes you remember a quote and you think it's fitting and you are also glad when someone else recognizes where it is from.

It could just as easily have been a quote from Foucault. Not sure that makes it any less edgy though.

It's true. Time and again we hear stories of bright kids being beaten into submission by the aggressive uniformity of our school system.

It is HARD to get the ones who do the worst to work at the level of those who do well.

It is "easy", however, to make everyone suck equally as much at school. At least that is my experience.

I actually got diagnosed with a high IQ, which I got tested for because most classes were boring to me and thus I didn't really do well. As aresult of me not being challenged much if at all back then, I never really learned how to learn.

Thus I slid further and further down with learning until I dropped out.

IMO there should be more separation between kids with high and low abilities at school. Push the "better" ones much harder, while also providing specially trained teachers to the "worse" ones. Don't try to get everyone to the same level.

Dad, is that you? Seriously, that was my father's experience in school, and hence why I was homeschooled, for which I am eternally grateful. My dad is also an SWE and lurks here, so hi dad!

I doubt that I am your dad, as I do not have any kids.

Also, you are probably older than I am.

School is not a place for kids low in trait conscienciousness. This can often mean smart, as it has a correlation with IQ, but mostly it's conscienciousness.

Put those kids in honors, AP, IB, or advanced classes.

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