If you're comfortable sharing, what's something that an adult told you when you were young that — intentions aside — had a memorably negative impact on you?
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Replying to @webdevMason
It’s a suspicious, inconvenient, or outright wrong thing to progress faster than the children around you.
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Replying to @patio11 @webdevMason
I got to adulthood before I realized that “Assign Patrick busywork as punishment for reading ahead” was a *classroom management technique.*
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Replying to @patio11 @webdevMason
My school had an expensive specially designed box of excruciatingly boring fake books that you were forced to read if you got through the normal ones too quickly. Ah yes here we are:https://hackeducation.com/2015/03/19/sra
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Fortunately they were kept in the same broom closet with the ASR-33 teletype that connected to a late-1960s timesharing machine across town. If I closed the door... I imagine the teachers knew, but it got me out of the way.
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