they definitely sabotaged quicker kids. i remember being forced to keep reading books even though i was completely done with the school part of reading, 2 hours once per week. utter tedium and highly demoralising. after a while they made me go to the class one year older so i could help them learn to read effectively. they assigned me to a nigger. you can guess how well that went. once you get to the point where scoring an 8/10 or higher is effortless and requires the bare minimum of paying attention to anything, you stop trying to improve, and unfortunately due to school working the way it does, that doesn't make you fall behind. by the time you notice where you could've been if you kept trying, it's years too late and you've gotta work to not think that you've fucked yourself over in ignorant sloth. after all, school isn't designed to push excellence beyond the limit. it's designed to retard you and prevent excellence. to be excellent and to be outstanding, you've got to stand out from the crowd. not their goal.
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