Public School Ranking (Advanced, AP, etc)
So I'm from Texas, where we have a bad public school system. I did great in it with little effort. In Texas, kids are placed in about 3 seperate castes in Grade 1. Gifted and Talented, Advanced, and Whatever the Bottom is Called. What I did not know is that this is rare.
It never really occured to me that this was weird until about a week ago, when I read that some other state that does this wanted to abolish them, and I was like "Oh great, mix the smart with the tards and get universal mediocraty!" But my parents told me that they thought the system was jive, that it was uncommon, and that the kids did all around better in their schools growing up with everyone together.
I don't consider myself an elitist. While some kids I knew in Advanced were dumb, there were plenty at my college who got a higher GPA than me with seemingly less effort. So even if I'm so smart, they're still smarter. I don't put a lot of faith in the ranking system, but I didn't see it as bad until a day ago.
I guess I just wanted to know what the many different peoples here grew up with and wether or not I'm an asshole.
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