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• Wednesday, April 12, 2006 06:37 PM

  I'm typing slowly, plastic synapse, because you can't comprehend with any speed

  "I found that the worst effect of segregating adolescents away from the real world, the formation of popularity-based hierarchies with defined in- and out-groups, goes away when the student population is too large and too diverse to be confined in a linear hierarchy."

  Yeah, that's why large schools don't have any cliques. Or dependent clauses.

  "As I told adults about my school, 'Columbine couldn't happen here.'"

  Wow. The null hypothesis. And sisnce it hasn't happened yet, you must be a fucking genius.

  "I got a 1420 SAT score when I was 12 (if we're going to talk about scores)"

  Prove it. So far your inability to establish a cogent line of reasoning (and later, your grammar) leads me to believe you're full of shit.

  "In fact, it was the high school principal's idea to accelerate me through HS."

  I bet a lot of people are happy to get you out of their way in a hurry.

  "I'm also sorry that you feel so negatively about "retards." It's definitely not true that they are beyond help. My brother was severely learning-disabled when he was young"

  A retard isn't the same thing as having a learning disability. Any retard could tell you that.

  "I think that if a school has to make a choice between special education and programs for advanced kids, perhaps it is better to help those who need help to merely function independently in society."

  Why does it always have to be "either/or"?

  "I and the other advanced kids would have turned out OK regardless, but every special ed kid you can educate potentially represents one less person in jail or on the public dole."

  Or, as we 1420s are fond of saying, "The other advanced kids and I..."

  And thanks for taking offense at the term "retards" then essentially labeling every one of them as potential jailbirds or welfare hounds. Nice.

  And thanks, too, for the assumption that all self-identified smart kids always turn out OK.

  You are so full of shit your eyes are brown. I'd rather hang out with your brother.

  —Good luck. You'll need it.
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