Raptorific

I go to Temple and enjoy soda. I also like dinosaurs and Batman. I promise, I am not a child.

• Posted 10 months ago

  "About as important as it is that the president’s over six feet or has blue eyes. His race doesn’t affect his ability to govern" QUOTING THAT BIT FOREVER! Now an extra question, as something you said aroused my curiosity. Back in 2008, did you prefer Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama? Please give reasons :).

  Asked by hogwartskeyhole

  I supported Barack Obama from early in the Primaries, in like, winter/spring of 2007, but I’ve been pretty much in support of Hilary Clinton as President since Bill Clinton stopped being president. 

  I basically caught wind of him speaking through people saying he couldn’t be president because he’d need to be sworn in on a Qur’an, and after calling them out on the like, three levels of bullshit in that, and I loved his speeches so much that I started following his campaign.

  I resolved, though, that this country is partisan enough without in-fighting in the parties, so since I would be perfectly satisfied with either as President, I would not speak ill of either in the hopes the other would be the nominee. 

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• Posted 10 months ago

  I agree with all of the gifted student stuff. I usually understand concepts as soon as they are introduced, but I have to sit through (what seems like) ridiculous amounts of explaining for everyone else. I was even stuck in a class with a second teacher that repeated everything the first teacher said for the sake of helping out the poor achievers in the class. It was horrible.

  Asked by hogwartskeyhole

  One time I had a teacher tell me to “tone it down” and basically pretend I wasn’t gifted because it would make the non-gifted students in the class feel bad about themselves. 

  I’m just imagining the backlash that would result if an athletic coach told the best player on the team to be bad at football because it made the other players feel like they were worse at football than him. 

  I had an education professor once who gave me the best description of a gifted student’s experience ever. The average IQ is 100. Most people you meet will have an IQ of approximately 100. The threshold for “gifted” IQs (formerly “genius,” which is not really used in schools anymore because it makes the other kids feel bad) is usually around 140.

  So a gifted kid being taught in a classroom specifically tailored to students with an average IQ would be the same as taking a kid with an average IQ and teaching them in a classroom where all the other kids have an IQ of 60 (which, for those of you who don’t know, is considered mild mental retardation). 

  For the record, I don’t know my actual IQ other than that it’s over 140 (from school records), but I’ve been tested at around 160. So you’ll have to just imagine what it was like for someone like me to be seated in a room where the teachers were specifically trained to teach all their students as if they had an IQ of 60. 

  There are only a few people in this world I truly hate. One of them was the learning support teacher who refused to listen to me and verbally abused me when I tried to complain. 

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