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Originally Posted by mccoyred
This is the same mindset that is causing our children to 'dumb down' in grade school. I always reiterate to my children that good grades and education gives you CHOICES. Many of us just don't get it...
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This is something I've dealt with personally. I remember "dumbing down" around the 4th grade after I had been told repeatedly by my peers that "I think I know everything", and "you always gotta answer for something". So I shut up, stopped reading those encyclopedia's my mother bought for me and just coasted through school. Even though my parents were educated I placed more value on the messages being sent to me by my peers than them. It took a long time to shake that mentality. In the small town I come from you aren't given options, if you aren't considered smart they don't try to invest anything into you. Many are labeled in grade school and not even given the chance to consider college. I had hoped this mentality was changing
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