Have you ever completely overachieved? Well, I have.
How often do you feel like you are the smartest person in the room? For me, all the time.
You see, unlike so many today, I had a superior education. Too many kids these days just don’t have the advantages, lucky-breaks or technological advances that I had that allowed me to be more highly educated than everyone else. I honestly feel bad for everyone else.
Louisville Elementary School
No one that I know of, except for my classmates, had quite the advantage or dare I say luck of being in a mobile classroom with one teacher teaching 2 different grades. Can you even imagine how my genius and creativity were stoked like a fire in a one-room schoolhouse with a distracted teacher as I “learned” what the older grade was learning. Nope, most kids don’t get to overhear the teacher giving instructions to 2nd graders while you are in 1st grade. That was my first step in my story of extreme intelligence.
The school, Louisville Elementary School, had been the victim of a fire and much of the building was unusable which forced us to play on a gravel playground under unforgiving monkey bars. This created toughness and mental acuity early in my life that allowed me to get the flames of genius burning strong. (You might notice in the photo how it says 1st and 2nd grade)
Middlesettlements Elementary School
After 4 formative years in the half-burnt down, one-teacher-for-multiple-grades, mobile-classroom schoolhouse, our forward-thinking community opened up a new elementary school! How many kids get to be THE FIRST STUDENTS in a new school? See, I told you I had it good.
Having had the intellectually competitive advantage at Louisville Elementary, I walked into MES with a swagger. My math scores were so much different than the kids in my grade, they put me in a “special” class – yep – my special-ness was recognized early and often in my educational journey.
I am not sure why so many kids in that math class were so much younger than me, but after a year in the special class, I re-joined my classmates and they were – as you would imagine – quite jealous of my advancements.
Class Photos
My school actually had profession backdrops for class photos. This, of course, aided in our learning and allowed us to imagine school-life as though we were being taught in the woods. This makes your mind sharp.
In the county school system, we were blessed with very few science instruments, which allowed us to just imagine a chemistry experiment or a frog dissection. When you visualize things in your mind, it’s as if it actually happened. So, not only did we get to imagine it, the school showed us at such a young age how to be frugal.
I could go on, and in another post I will try to refrain from bragging too much about my high school.
I will leave the rest of the proof here:
It is easy to tell by the fancy handwriting, the generic wording and the word “Olympics” that my school saw me as a huge asset to be exploited. I was all too happy to allow it since I was better than everyone else.
