when i was a kid reading encyclopedias and astrophysics books for educated amateurs (‘cause that’s what i wanted to read…) i arrived in kindergarten where we were literally learning letters from the alphabet one by one it was kafkaesque torture & my teacher called me a smartasshttps://twitter.com/elizashapiro/status/1446435627495530496 …
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i think it was my parents who insisted they test me, and through whatever test they did which if i remember properly included analogies, geometry stuff with blocks, and like, make a story out of pictures as well as some math, they were like, ok you tested into the 11th grade
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but talented and gifted programs were eliminated then. every class from what was then second grade and up had a gifted stream. none of the kindergarten and first grade classes did. they stuck me in first grade…
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ultimately i’m grateful for the friends i made in the class I ended up in. there were still bright kids in class who it was really fun to hang out with, and a statistically unusual number of my classmates have gotten phds or gone on to pretty deep research…
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and probably (surely??) just plunking me directly into the 11th grade would have been hilariously suboptimal. can you imagine? it has been done though, i guess. school was fine as long as i could do whatever i wanted, so long as the work got done. i’d be reading or drawing…
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or talking, quietly, with one of my friends, one of the cleverer or funnier people in class. at one point i was drawing up, kind of, machine geometries for imagined fusion reactors. there was a spelling test and they were like “spelling test” and i said “can’t you see i’m busy”
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hahahah thank you gobs, that means a lot 
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