mds_02 wrote:
Yes, I was rejected from a private school for several years in a row as a kid. The person evaluating me determined that I likely had some mild mental retardation, while the written intelligence tests I took at the same time determined that I was in the gifted range. Apparently the administrators thought that, in an academic setting, social ability was more important than academic ability. To this day, I still cannot understand their logic.
That's how it's always been though. I mean, look at how much emphasis they put on sports... It's the same thing. Besides, school isn't REALLY about you learning and becoming smart and whatnot... School's job is to get you used to being away from your house for about 8 hours a day, to teach you basic skills that most jobs requires(math, reading, writing), and to get you used to the idea of "shut up and do what you're told." The rest is just crap. They don't want smart people. They don't want critical thinkers. They want people they can easily manipulate and people who love being part of a big herd.
Oh yeah, school is also kinda like a daycare center too, it provides us with a place to be put while our parents are at work, and it's also there to just generally keep us busy so we don't learn anything useful(anything deemed inappropriate by the school staff) or interesting.