I suppose some anal Sarah Palin hating liberal will hate that title, but I'm going to proudly admit to something that my schoolmates never figured out, and that all of us in cell block Gestapo Primary were in the retard class.
This is sort of amazing in the pre screening is designed by geniuses who know all there is to know about children, and, yes, the writer of this blog was stuck into a class of slow learners in Deutsch kindergarden and I find it all amusing to this day.
There was the glue sucker, the kid who played in the mud, the boney girl, the Catholic kids, the girl who wet her pants daily and bawled all the time.........and you know something for the above list of classified retards, when graduation time came, numbers us retards were honor roll, distinction, straight A's and we equalled the genius class groups.
Our teachers always hated us, in being the retard class. There was 3rd grade year when we got all the kids how flunked in being dumb as posts, but I really liked those kids as they were some of my best friends in being great athletes and people you could depend on.
Next year we got in the foreign kids.........they were always dumping kids who didn't measure up into our group, and somehow the culls always measured up in our group.
Frankly, I would have been on meds now if I was in today's American system. They would come up with some hyperactive disorder as I was. I never shut up as I always had checks on my report card, setting records some years for talking all the time. School just was so boring and I had to find ways to entertain myself and others who were bored too in setting in rows.
It is in all of that experience, that I have no faith in teachers in none of these university graduates had one idea of child potential........and they literally did every damn thing they could thing of to destroy my God given abilities, instead of figuring out a way to enhance them.
I knew an Air America CIA wash out once, and he said, "I know who you are, as you were just like me in school in being smarter than the teachers and driving them nuts!".
I learned early how to game the system by Inspiration. I figured out that school grades are based on semester averages, meaning I could get straight A's in the first nine weeks, and then coast the second, apply myself the third nine weeks and then wait for the school year to be out for summer.
Honor would not allow me to get F's, and that would good or the SS would have figured out my juvenile slide and cracked down on me, but my B's were easy to achieve and I slid into C averages when I just got into my "I want to watch Gilligan's Island mode", as school should have been out for me about the day it started.
I always wondered what good a diploma was when a real mentally retarded kid was getting awarded the same diploma as me.........but then in going to Harvard what good is that degree when you see Obama got the same mentally handicapped degree bestowed on him and the wife.
So perhaps there is a lesson in this, in maybe all the retards you see around, are not retards as some of those children just might be the genius too smart to be figured out. I was with a number of those children.......one girl with six fingers comes to mind.........she was a cool kid though as a sort of borderline albino.
One reason I like Trig Palin and take offense when people pick at him, as I know what it is like to have people think you should have been aborted and think you belong in the 'tard class. You never know what will come out of a kid...........Tedd Roosevelt was a sickly little hyperactive kid who was written off a grave bait early and he turned out pretty good.
I never liked nap time though at age 5........seemed a waste of time, but you know if you got someone to nap with, it is just a whole lot more interesting.........might not nap as much, but at least now I get rewarded and not set behind the partition wall for talking.
The talking part has not wore off yet thank God.
Never write off a stupid kid, as the adult doing the judging is the incompetent one not seeing the brilliance in that child.
1/5th of my class were above average, and the ones who received the C's and D's are now some of the best business people I know.
Yes what of schooling.........
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