>yo doug. cause i'm a lazy ass, could you set up some sort of lob poll --
>and we don't have to confine it to lob. could ask for participation from
>other lefty email lists.
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>Poll would be something like: based on your own experience, do you think
>that, in your high school, being smart or an intellectual made someone
>popular at school? Did smart kids in your school have a lot of friends or
>were the friend of a lot of other kids?
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>yes, this is actually related to the issue. :)
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Some of that has to do with how the schools are organized. Some schools
have tracking systems, with smart kids segregated in their own classes;
others don't.
I asked my daughter whether smart kids who do well in school were considered uncool and she said that depended on the kid. She said that basically being smart and doing well in school is not all that high on a teenager's list, but that this was more a function of the age than of race.
She is just turning 14 and attends Oakland Tech High School, which is tracked. She is 1/4 Romanian, 1/4 Ashkenazy jew, and the other 1/2 is divided between Italian, Scandinavian, and German. Everyone at her school thinks she's latina.
Joanna
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