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Saga of Solitude

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Friday
3/26/99

Saga of Solitude

They began to alienate me in late 2nd grade. They called it GATE (gifted and talented education), then. I thought that they were just giving those few selected more work than the rest of the children. It didn't occur to me until around 5th grade that I was actually different.
Throughout 6th and 7th grades, they segregated us in things called "advanced" classes. In 8th grade, they called it algebra. It was around that time that I began to realize what they were really doing...
We are the lost ones! We are the little boys and girls they mutilated to take high school courses in middle school and college courses in high school. We are the ones who took algebra in 8th grade and will take claculus as juniors. We are the ones who colleges already call. We are the ones who have already written our valedictorian speeches. We are the ones who will score over 1500 on our SATs. We are the lost children. We have been swept up in knowledge and yet, can you build a fire in the rain? I can't. If you were stranded in the middle of the dessert, could you find your way home by the stars? I can't. They don't teach you that in calculus. Maybe they should.

- fallen

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