"I blame the parents"

[denny]

Interesting angle. The main thing that got me through being terminally uncool at school was knowing that I was the brightest one in my year - but then I can't see my parents having discouraged me from being as smart as possible, even by subtle omission.

http://education.independent.co.uk/schools/article1630281.ece

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[(Anonymous)]

Actually, I remember being told off once because I'd apparently started my work before all the other kids - actually I just wrote bloody fast. Another girl on my table, who had started before me, got given a well done sticker for writing so fast.

*headdesk*

[sevenhelz.livejournal.com]

oh yeah that was me

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

Totally bizarre.

I used to get sat at the back when we played 'Simon says' in French at junior school, but that was only so that everyone couldn't copy me, not any kind of reprimand for getting things right too often.