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Originally Posted by Baraka_Guru
...How is the ideal student viewed by others around him or her? An avid reader, always doing homework, always getting As, always keen for a challenge, always challenging others, etc. These are the students who are often ridiculed or otherwise sabotaged. It isn't "cool" to be that kind of student. School is more of a social game or social hangout than it is a place to educate oneself...
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This is a huge issue, I agree. I had not thought of it in relation to the present argument. My brother was ridiculed constantly, then beaten senseless in junior high because he was a good student. After that experience, he made it a point to only ever get a C. He would skip assignments or purposefully fail a paper - anything he could do to get that perfectly calculated C. He wasn't beaten up again, but he also didn't continue on to college.