Envy of success in your country

[Egbert]

When I was a kid I never thought of good grades as something to be ashamed of. If someone thought good grades were a bad thing I would have thought they were stupid.

And a mob of little mongrels would have shoved your head into a locker anyway while calling you a know all, teachers pet and crawler.

Presumably you never attended the wrong school.

[Elok]

Wasn't aware that going to class, doing homework, and studying is accepted as the popular thing to do.

Being an absolute nerd is unpopular, but you can get good grades without being a nerd. That's really more of an attitude thing, and doesn't even necessarily correlate with success. I was a nerd, for example, and I got lousy grades. Our class's valedictorian was not a nerd, and was actually quite popular.

[giblets]

And a mob of little mongrels would have shoved your head into a locker anyway while calling you a know all, teachers pet and crawler.

Presumably you never attended the wrong school.

I can't remember anyone's heads getting shoved into lockers so apparently I did go to the wrong school.

[Egbert]

I can't remember anyone's heads getting shoved into lockers so apparently I did go to the wrong school.

Apparently you did NOT go to the wrong school.

[notyoueither]

Wasn't aware that going to class, doing homework, and studying is accepted as the popular thing to do.

The Apolyton Twilight Zone, yet again.

The crabs in the bucket is a class thing, Albert.

How many posters here do you think grew up lower class?

[notyoueither]

Crabs in a bucket is not the same as tall poppy syndrome.

They are different.

[Kidlicious]

or, perhaps, a fear of losing relative social staus?

(I am suggesting there is a difference in motivations between "Keeping up with the Jones" or dragging them down to my level?)

Sure, but they're both envy, and either way it's evil. People either overestimate evil or they underestimate evil. Of course there's no such thing as vampires and such. Evil is more cunning. It corrupts your soul and you tell yourself it's good.

[Jon Miller]

Being an absolute nerd is unpopular, but you can get good grades without being a nerd. That's really more of an attitude thing, and doesn't even necessarily correlate with success. I was a nerd, for example, and I got lousy grades. Our class's valedictorian was not a nerd, and was actually quite popular.

Being a nerd doesn't have to do with going to class, doing homework, and studying. I agree.

And going to class, doing homework, and studying are not needed to get good grades in most US highschools. That is because most US highschools suck.

In my highschool, nerds (not me, I stayed out of the toilets) were sometimes forced to 'push the penny'. This was where they had to push a penny around the toilet bowl with their tongues. My highschool had a bad reputation even for Oregon.

JM

[Kidlicious]

Being an absolute nerd is unpopular, but you can get good grades without being a nerd. That's really more of an attitude thing, and doesn't even necessarily correlate with success. I was a nerd, for example, and I got lousy grades. Our class's valedictorian was not a nerd, and was actually quite popular.

I taught at a school where the students didn't care about grades. It was cool in a way because when you graded them fairly they accepted it. Try that in a middle class school and you better be prepared for war.

[DaShi]

"Crabs in a Mother****ing Bucket!" SLJ's next movie.

[DaShi]

I taught at a school where the students didn't care about grades. It was cool in a way because when you graded them fairly they accepted it. Try that in a middle class school and you better be prepared for war.

When I was a teacher in China, I delighted in failing students. Until the school told me to stop.

[molly bloom]

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

What is the chief end of man?--to get rich. In what way?--dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God, the one only and true? Money is God. God and Greenbacks and Stock--father, son, and the ghost of same--three persons in one; these are the true and only God, mighty and supreme...

Mark Twain

[onodera]

In my highschool, nerds (not me, I stayed out of the toilets) were sometimes forced to 'push the penny'. This was where they had to push a penny around the toilet bowl with their tongues. My highschool had a bad reputation even for Oregon.

I went to a pretty regular school, not a private one, but even in it such bullies would get expelled with extreme prejudice. Hello, police record, hello, special education school.

[Al B. Sure!]

I went to a pretty regular school, not a private one, but even in it such bullies would get expelled with extreme prejudice. Hello, police record, hello, special education school.

Soviet totalitarianism

[giblets]

Soviet totalitarianism

How the hell is it "totalitarianism" if a school disciplines bullies?