[BNM] [OT] Brighton's nuclear power station?

[Barry Bloye]

On 24/05/07, Nick Wilsdon wrote:

> Having actually been the 'brighter' one in a classroom full of idiots, you
> don't nobly educate the rest. Usually you keep very quiet as the peer
> consensus does not look too favourably on the 'clever/geeky' ones. The
> teachers also have to work at the lowest common denominator. I was bored out
> of my head most of the time with no one to stretch me academically.

Ditto. At Primary School I was considered 'gifted' and got moved up a
year, and even then I was still top of the class. The headteacher
recommended I consider going to Brighton College, but naturally I
wanted to go where my friends were going.

I went to the 'local' comprehensive, and ended up with very mediocre
GCSE grades. I (well, the two or three 'higher' pupils in my class)
was lucky if I got 10 minutes attention in the average GCSE maths
class. When I took the exam I didn't understand a good chunk of the
questions because it was stuff I'd simply never been taught.

But then if I'd gone to a different school, I wouldn't be where I am
now, so it can't be all that bad. :)

Baz