Stick kids in an educational system where you only have to be “good enough”, and there’s no reward for going beyond that, in fact there’s no system, no challenge, no nothing for going beyond that. Now, assume that bar were set low. Whether it’s low or high is purely subjective of course. But if you spend 2\/3 of the first 18 years of your life where your only goal is to be ‘good enough’, doing your best won’t come really natural. And when you run into less structured environments in life, your toolbox probably doesn’t fit. <\/p>\n
Welcome to my life. Sadly, this pattern is still working out for me. B’s on the midsemester papers. B’s on the midsemester tests. It’s fucking grade inflation. I want a do-over on my life. I want sister dorothy gerlica (I only just now realized the potential pun value on that one) to shove her “wait for the rest of the class” attitude up her habit. I want mom and dad to support me getting a real goddamn education, including not deciding that “skipping a grade might stunt Stephen’s social life”. I want to have not internalized all these stupid “wait for it and good things will come” attitudes. Most especially that last one. The rest is incidental, and matters only as it leads into that.<\/p>\n
Bitter, party of 1, your table is waiting.<\/p>\n
Too late now, but I was thinking of UW Madison because they seemed to be less structured there, and it would have made me take more initiative, in theory. Hmmm. How to cultivate a habit of proactivity….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Stick kids in an educational system where you only have to be “good enough”, and there’s no reward for going beyond that, in fact there’s no system, no challenge, no nothing for going beyond that. Now, assume that bar were set low. Whether it’s low or high is purely subjective of course. But if you … Continue reading “My theory for why “Gifted” kids often turn into Slackers”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cheerfulchaotic.crazycrew.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}