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Cop out alert!

I was just like that boy in there.

I was always very physically tough so the kids would just get older kids and more of them to beat the tar out of me.

So I compromised a little, I learned to swear in conversation, act much less sensitive/perceptive than I was and not to use my vocabulary (that would often get me in trouble). Nor to question the concepts that we would be taught in class or to make the teacher look incompetent.

I had absolute hatred from both students and teachers alike.

My family wanted to place me in a private school but they were/are outrageously expensive.

When I was approaching man size (grade 8) I was too much trouble to try to beat up but I still didn't fit in.

I went through high school just barely passing for spite then smoked my last year and the SAT.

I am doing my pH.D now and am on the conveyor belt to go to medical school or be a professor (or just about anything at all).

My point is that a person will likely excel in any environment if they have the goods.

But I know that what I had to go through took a chunk out of me, in more ways than one. Plus I would have achieved much more, maybe I could have really helped society or made advancements. I am doing this now and will certainly achieve more but it will not be nearly what I could have done if I was not in that horrible environment.

It is imperative that a person who is gifted be fast tracked or placed in a special program. To allow the stagnation of these people is harmful to them but more importantly the entire country.

If you reduce your size to normal, you describe a larger percentage of bright kids who are being held back by the system -- I would count myself among them. If you reduce the size to small, it's the nerdy kids who get relentlessly picked on and become antisocial as a result. Not everyone was blessed with your genetics. Thanks for your posting.

The way I see it, size shouldn't matter. But, uhhh, since you asked, I, uhh, feel good about my size. Oh, never mind. No peeking. ;-)