why is that sometimes smart kids get treated as if they were not so smart?
367590
Because intelligence is threatening and causes most people to compare themselves to you. Alot of adults will treat a child who is smart more like a child to ensure they know their "place". An adult wont likely want to give up their "authority" in a situation and one way to gain authority is to know more than someone. So again, they will feel the need to "put you in your place" so to speak. Its unfortunate, however only lasts for a little while.
1041276
Teaching kids in school not to be smartasses?
763793
well siad. its makes them feel smart b/c they are shallow stupid people  after all. its a way for them to avoid the answer that they did not like b/c it was true
641914
If you are really good they don't really care how smart you are
61576
People act dumb, because they like to be the center of attention, and they do it for attention.\n\nAnd boys and girls impress each other, because they want to be be excecteped. They want them to like them so they won't seem stupid\n.
565769
I think they are because they wanted to do stuffs in their own way because when they were a kid they cant do ir so they want kids to be good but they don't show themselves as a good model so they are basically hypocrites.. If im gonna be a parent someday I'd be the best parent so the generation/tradition/culture of being a hypocrite will stop. and oh yea stupidity has also something to do with it.
1124405
This is what happens when kids are not graded, so as to spare their feelings.  \n\nIt's true; there's been a whole movement in the past ten years to allow children to root around and try to find the correct answers, whether in mathematics, or English, with no punishments or demerits for incorrect answers, and yet no rewards for answers that ARE correct.\n\nThe current crop of 12 to 20 year-olds can't read, write, compose or spell, and what's worse, they think their puny efforts are "good enough".\n\nSad, isn't it?
236431
I'm assuming that you don't mean dumb in a bad or derogatory way. If you mean dumb as in mute, there are children who are born mute. And if you mean dumb as in lacking in mental capacity, there are birth defects like retardation.
615985
Well some people like me have a hard time spelling because i just aint that smart. I use to do better but seems now day i cant remember as well as i once did. But let me ask you something. Just because you can spell and think you are smart dose that make you better than me. I dont think so you may be smart or think you are but spelling aint everthing and if you dont like the way people do things on here then why are you here. I realy dont like being put down because i am dumb or stupid or not to smart who are you to judge me anyway.....so their roll that up in a joint and smoke it... know it all........
801686
They're definitely not as smart as girls. They take a little longer to realize some things.
53406
Just because someone is smart, others DON'T automatically think they're "not cool". I was A honor roll, National Honor Society, Class President, and all that fun stuff - yet no one ever saw me as a "glasses-wearing intellectual", because it's all about whether or not you know how to have FUN! You can ace every class, and it just matters how you act about it to everyone else. Just relax and try to not be so rigid.
315340
I don't seem to find school a good indication of intelligence.  I've seen more uneducated people with higher "intelligence" than educated people.
872617
However "smart"  we may  be,  we also  have   emotions  and  impulses.       Sometimes, an impulsive or an emotional reaction to something can override  that part of the brain  that deals with logical,  rational ,  organized thinking..   LOL  except when it comes to  computer  technology, ( in which I'm as thick as  two short planks)   I'm considered to be  pretty bright.   But  under the influence of  either  an emotion  or an impulse, I've  done  a  few things that,  when I looked back afterwards, made  me just  scratch my head  and  say "What  was I thinking?"\n                                                                                   But  having done something really dumb, the  smart person  then does  the "smart thing", which is  to mend any fences that  can be mended,  and  write off  the  rest  as something never  to be  repeated;   then gets on with his or her life
442608
NO they don't.\n\nAnd then they get angry if someone tries to correct them.\n\nIt's like, well excuse me for trying to help you seem more intelligent then what you are portraying.
236014
I believe that their brains have not yet fully grown and they would rather not feel their pains, stresses and humiliations so resort to not being present. It takes a strong individual to say no to peer pressures and sometimes kids don't have that self discipline to do that.  They need strong parents and family to instill those traits.
263380
it feeds their esteem.  people who are usually low in self esteem tend to compensate their deficiency by soliciting (or the thought of being a smart person) nods or even attention
379087
Well, most guys feel they are threatened by someone smarter than them. Plus when they try to get some, they feel they might not be able too, because you aren't some stupid chick willing to do anything.