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Do you think AS need more immediate or overt forms of feedback?

When I first started school, they placed me in a remedial reading class with just two other students and a teacher. It seemed SO easy but it was also really fun. I loved it in there. I loved the direct attention and interaction and learning games we played. It didn't last long before they said I was caught up and could enter regular classes again. Then I did extremely poorly and had lots of "behavioral" issues. In high school they placed me in remedial math and literature classes, and at the same time, I took an IQ test and got into the gifted program where you're in very small classes and get to study whatever you want. Seems weird.

Then later (much later, I went back to college after many years) I had to take a few extra low-end math courses to catch up, which I excelled in. I even became sort of a make-shift teacher's assistant even though I was taking the class with everyone else. I went on to get a degree in computer science which requires LOTS of math.

Lately I've been posting little snippets of my writing on message boards like short stories or little witicisms that I find amusing or funny. I'm neurotic about checking back to see how people respond, if at all. If I don't get a response quickly and especially if I get no response at all, it's been very stressful for me. I'm thinking that I wrote something really charming or wity or creative and interesting, and ... nothing, or just very short responses like "That's great!".

I have a feeling this is just a personal idiosyncracy or maybe just kind of loosely related to a craving for social interaction and a feeling of isolation that has been growing lately, but I don't know.

Nothing seems weird when it comes to the education system. They create a program and find people to put in it so one of the lazy flunkies gets to play school house and only has to act like they are teaching a few students.

I think I'm kind of the opposite. I've always been in classes with 30-35 students and don't mind (well, besides not liking to be in crowds). Now I hardly get any feedback except for test which we have every 1-2 months, since teachers have too many students to be able to correct homework.

You're probably right. This might seem sort of off-topic, but reading your post reminded me of Benin, where people ask each other obvious questions like "Are you there?", "Are you awake?" (in the morning), "Are you eating?" (while you're eating).

http://www.geocities.com/fon_is_fun/Gre ... bvious.htm

According to this site it's used to fill lulls in conversation, but I think it's related to some deep human need to verify that you exist for other people or that other people also exist.

It depends on the situation. I suggest you analyze what is really going on.

I heard hispanic kids where put into bilingual programs to fill the seats and some of them speak perfect english because they where born in the country and americans

The majority of NT's are cold hearted people who don't care about anyone but themselves, if there is a buck $$ in something for them, thats all that matters. They will kill each other for a dollar.

The people in the education industry are mostly just big phonies there for the money and could care less about anyone but themselves and just put on a big show about caring.

Happened to me...
I lived a few years in the US when I was little, and although I wasn't born there I moved there young enough to learn English as a mother tongue (although my 2nd one). They placed me in an ESL program but pulled me out immediately when they noticed I knew English.
I'd say my US school was very, very good, actually. I wouldn't have gotten this far without it.

Most of them are! WELL SAID!