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From: pooh@unirot.UUCP (Pooh)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: Skipping grades -> Undersociali
Message-ID: <410@unirot.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 23-Mar-86 14:42:46 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 23 14:42:46 1986
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In article <2849@reed.UUCP> purtell@reed.UUCP (Lady Godiva) writes:
>
>In fact, I've been surprised by the number of people on the net who
>complain about be socially inept because of their I.Q. I could see
>skipping a lot of grades as giving someone a problem, depending on the
>person, but just being intelligent? Maybe I'm weird, but I just don't
>see how being intelligent should affect making friends with people
>negatively. (If you are the type of person who is always buried in the
>library or huddled in front of a computer screen then of course you'll
>have trouble socially since no one will know you exist, but you don't
>have to be intelligent to do that.)
>

Right on, Lady G.!  I only skipped a total of one grade, but several
times (move overseas, move up a grade, come back, move back down,
get bored, move up again. . . "now we're doing the cha-cha. . .").
I don't see why it should have anything to do with making friends.

Oh, sure, there's the initial suspicion and scrutiny from your
classmates:  "Where did you come from?"  "Uh, I was in seventh
grade until yesterday."  "So you skipped a grade?  Are you SMART,
or something?"

Aside:  how do the rest of you handle that question?  I never know
what to say.  I used to answer, "No, I just knew where the body was
buried," but they'd look blank and say, "Huh?  What?"

But after that, it's no different than meeting people any other
place.  You skipped a grade on the assumption that you belonged
on that level; if you're having trouble fitting in, maybe you made
a mistake.

There are all kinds of "intelligence," and to my way of thinking,
if you can't get along with people, what good is a high test score?

Six grades--now, that's something else.  You're obviously going to
be different.  I wonder, though, whether another, better solution
was possible.

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