Are you bullied in high school because you?re a geek? Don?t worry, it gets better.
Many popular students approach graduation day with bittersweet nostalgia: excitement for the future is tempered by fear of lost status. But as cap-and-gown season nears, let?s also stop to consider the outcasts, students for whom finishing high school feels like liberation from a state-imposed sentence.
In seven years of reporting from American middle and high schools, I?ve seen repeatedly that the differences that cause a student to be excluded in high school are often the same traits or skills that will serve him or her well after graduation.
Examples abound: Taylor Swift?s classmates left the lunch table as soon as she sat down because they disdained her taste for country music. Last year, the Grammy winner was the nation?s top-selling recording artist.
Students mocked Tim Gunn?s love of making things; now he is a fashion icon with the recognizable catchphrase "Make it work."
J.K. Rowling, author of the bestselling "Harry Potter" series, has described herself as a bullied child "who lived mostly in books and daydreams." It?s no wonder she went on to write books populated with kids she describes as "outcasts and comfortable with being so."
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(Yes, the title is inspired from the It Gets Better Project, which lets LGBT kids and teens know that things will get better ? if they can just get through their teen years. Here?s a fascinating story about the project over at NPR)
Source: http://www.neatorama.com/2011/05/29/geeky-teens-it-gets-better/
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