11-year old graduates college

[Oni-Paranoia]

Re: 11-year old graduates college

We all have accomplishments that are abnormal to the average person.

Think of what this kid is missing.. Think of the fun you all had in middle AND high school.. that's something he will never (no matter how smart he is) will understand

p.s. Those recess days where kissing was gross, being a/or bully/bullied.. liking that one cute girl next to you, dealing with stupid gossip and girl drama etc etc.. the good ol' days ;]

[Scrab]

Re: 11-year old graduates college

Well after I left Primary School (I never went to Kindergarten/Nursery or whatever you call it in america, I just went to year 1) Which is after you finish 6 whole years of Primary School, you go to secondary. I had trouble finding one, schools in South London are all ****ty and/or really far away and/or full of Racists/Bullies/Hypocritical Bastards. Noone would want it, I guarantee.

I was extremely likeable in primary, the entire school respected me and knew me, but the first 3 years I was just on my own walking in "recess" (they call it Playtime/Lunchtime (15 minutes / 30 minutes) in England), with no friends.

So after I first joined my Secondary School at the beginning of 2006 I think it was, I didn't make any friends the first day and I was struggling to keep up with finding the classes, after a while I found ONE kid who was also like me, didn't really have any friends, came here on his own with no people from Primary School, was smart, just fitted in with me, really. Then eventually this other kid, I can't remember his name, Andrew I'll say for now. He was my friend, until a week after he stopped talking to me and I was like wtf? Also things that would piss me off like people stealing my pens and sticking chewing gum to my backpack. Why the **** would anyone want a Ballpoint pen with my name on it? That really pissed me off, that was an expensive pen. You can't bring **** into schools these days without some prick stealing it to try and make his life more content because he gets beaten by his parents.

There was this one guy I can't remember his name, he had a massive head, that's all I can remember really, well he kept saying stupid **** to me that made no sense, like I was in the lunch room eating my food and he just walked up to me with his 2 goons like the 3 stooges and said "YOUR MUM IS SO FAT, THE WALLS ARE JEALOUS OF HER" I facepalmed for two reasons, one, because he didn't get the joke right and 2, because his friends were laughing.

I was standing outside the classroom waiting for the teacher and that same kid was standing there, he had his back turned to me and he was talking to his friends, I had a rage build up inside of me and everything went silent for a minute, I punched him HARD in his back, he retaliated with a hard blow to my nose, and god did that ever hurt. It wasn't bleeding, it just hurt. I got him with some jabs to his ribs and then the teacher came, my friend who later decided to not talk to me anymore asked me if I was okay, I was struggling to not tear up.

See England? This is where you go wrong. With cheap teachers who don't actually teach a thing. The only way you can learn anything without doing it yourself is going to a ****ing university and getting taught by Stephen Hawking for christs' sake. Or getting lucky and going to a good school.

I wasn't getting bullied at all, nothing went wrong, it just...Felt wrong. It felt bad, it felt like what I would call The lobby to Hell. I'm not just bitching, I'm not a pussy, it's not that I can't cope with it or anything. My cousin used to be a smart guy, with friends, after he joined Secondary School he ended up changing, now he's an asshole, I don't even get on with him anymore, he's completely different and his grammar is TERRIBLE. He eventually dropped out.

So it's either join and change into an asshole to fit-in and have friends, or leave and become homeschooled, which is what I did. I'm a smart person and I evaluated everything. What the cons would be of this and the pros, the cons were, no experience, lack of friends, social encounters etc...The pros were, being able to do my work freely with no restrictions, going out to parks and anywhere I want to, freedom to think, no tests to prepare, no bullies or conflict to deal with, I have no walls.

So now I'm becoming homeschooled and I hope to go to College when I'm 16, then get my A-Levels and go to Uni to study Computer Science. If I believe in it, I can do it. I can get a good job and I wont have to go to the "Job Center" and "Sign-on" and barely be able to live.

TL;DR = English schools suck, you don't learn anything, you have to go uni to learn anything properly, otherwise you wouldn't need "secondary schools", they're full of ****s, blah blah.

[A2P]

Re: 11-year old graduates college

All I can really say to that kid is congratulations on his feat. I wish his parents weren't so arrogant, saying that his child is just an average person when it's completely obvious that he's much more talented than a "normal" person. =/

It helps raise the standards. We're all capable of achieving brilliance. We just have to set our minds into it.

[qqwref]

Re: 11-year old graduates college

I wish his parents weren't so arrogant, saying that his child is just an average person when it's completely obvious that he's much more talented than a "normal" person. =/

Agreed... if you have never had any trouble with school, it doesn't mean it was just as easy for others. Thousands of people work really hard and don't graduate first in their class or get into college when they're 8.

[Scrab]

Re: 11-year old graduates college

I think I just posted the longest message on FFR that wasn't C/P

[Oni-Paranoia]

Re: 11-year old graduates college

I think I just posted the longest message on FFR that wasn't C/P

Before you click "post reply", re-read some of what you just typed. You seem like you're a talkative person and end up rambling on (we all do it). Just don't do it here, not many will read it.

[Bendxtwoo]

Re: 11-year old graduates college

Before you click "post reply", re-read some of what you just typed. You seem like you're a talkative person and end up rambling on (we all do it). Just don't do it here, not many will read it.

Cause I sure didn't.

[Nyokou]

Re: 11-year old graduates college

Me either. Actually I skipped a lot of posts in this thread due to idiocy.

I personally think the kid didn't miss out on much. Not everyone has good experiences in middle and high school. And since this kid is so smart, he probably would have been picked on by pricks like some of you guys that are just jealous of his extreme intelligence.

[Scrab]

Re: 11-year old graduates college

Before you click "post reply", re-read some of what you just typed. You seem like you're a talkative person and end up rambling on (we all do it). Just don't do it here, not many will read it.

Yeah, usually whenever I have something really complicated / long to explain I end up just rambling on changed from sub-subject to sub-subject until I make like 9 paragraphs.

Oh well, school sucks.

[kommisar[os]]

Re: 11-year old graduates college

middle school was awesome idk what kinda same gender catholic school you all went to

[shad0wlord]

Re: 11-year old graduates college

I'm interested how the attitude he was raised with effected his efforts. I'm sure most of us here could see school being condensed well enough for people to graduate from college at 18 without too much sacrifices (other than time that is pretty much just wasted talking to friends/texting/etc.) However none of us were really raised with education as the sole focus of our childhoods.

I don't really have a problem with what the parents are doing, though. As long as they aren't using him as a tool for bragging and he enjoys what hes been accomplishing.

[A2P]

Re: 11-year old graduates college

Me either. Actually I skipped a lot of posts in this thread due to idiocy.

I personally think the kid didn't miss out on much. Not everyone has good experiences in middle and high school. And since this kid is so smart, he probably would have been picked on by pricks like some of you guys that are just jealous of his extreme intelligence.

Really, the only truly idiotic poster in this thread is Tired_Old_Man. Everybody else here has minor self esteem issues.

And I call TOM an idiot because he feels that being mediocre is okay, and also for being an internet tough guy

[foilman8805]

Re: 11-year old graduates college

A2P, I like you.

no homo

[NFD]

Re: 11-year old graduates college

Who knows how long he can go before he burns away.

[funmonkey54]

Re: 11-year old graduates college

Cool, that is nice for him. I am intelligent and I do well in school and have developed a nice persona as well as a social life that I am content with. Neither my intelligence or social life is wuite where I would like for it to be, but I think that it takes a nice even balance of the 2 that people take their time to develop. I imagine he is probably not happy with every aspect of his life either, but I hope he is able to go on and do positive things in the world.

Meanwhile, I think that instead of arguing and glorifying all the things he has done, we should go out and work on our lives. Seems like that is what he would want anyways. =)