Hellobee Boards

This is funny to me because apparently at my first elementary school that kid was me. When I was that age I thought the smartest kid was someone else until he contacted me a year ago on a social media network to tell me that he both liked me and was jealous of me when we were kids because I always scored a few points above him on our projects. He became the student with the highest grades at that school--but he said he knew if I had stayed in the school it would've been me. I was pulled out of that school to attend a special program for the "gifted and talented." And that boy, well, he's not so successful

When I got to my new school I was a nobody and I don't know what happened to those smarts!

I do because I was always secretly competing with them! They were both in gifted with me and we were all close friends. They are both in college.

I definitely remember the smartest kids, there were 3 of them. 1 was the smartest at EVERYTHING all through elementary school and then I lost touch with him in high school. He went to one of the best colleges in our state and dropped out freshman year. He's now working at a supermarket and from what I get from his FB posts, does little more than smoke pot all day.

I, too, feel sad for his wasted talent.

Regarding the other 2 kids I mentioned... one was my best friend growing up, we lost touch but she became a teacher and seems to be doing very well with her life, and the other is....my HUSBAND! He's doing pretty well himself!

I do. I knew him since birth, he was a tiny genius. They took him in to have his IQ tested after someone noticed him reading a window sign from the inside of the store (so backwards) at normal speed at age 3. Yeah...
He went to college at 15 or 16 I think, but we've lost touch now.