Media Nick Diaz was in Special-Ed classes

[Jibsta69]

So was i lul, we all called it the "retard class" funny thing was, it was a blend of really smart people, complete morons, and drug dealers. Was drug dealers causing problems, goth kids who didn't belong anywhere, and a few awkward kids who struggled to adapt socially but were insanely smart.

Sounds accurate. Most kids I knew in “special ed” classes weren’t exactly dumb. They were just unmotivated and didn’t have any interest in their education, so they had poor grades and got sent to special classes.

Most would drop out of high school mostly due to stigma of being in what you just said, “retard class”. If anything, I always thought these classes where more so a teacher and a parent agreeing to send them there because they failed at as a teacher and parent motivating their student/child and just making them even less interested in schooling due the stigma.

 

[italiamusica]

Sounds accurate. Most kids I knew in “special ed”classes weren’t exactly dumb. They were just unmotivated and didn’t have any interest in their education, so they had poor grades and got sent to special classes. Most would drop out of high school mostly due to stigma of being in what you just said, “retard class”.

This is usually what it is, and what almost happened to me. Coming from a bad home life, I didn't give a shit about school, so I just daydreamed and zoned out most of the time, and my grades got horrible. My parents asked if I wanted to do the "special" classes and I said no, and that was about it lol.

 

[dubhlinn]

i dont understand the picture nick is trying to paint. he was essentially kidnapped by his own team and dragged across the border to a mexican rehab that is basically a prison designed for the worst addicts.
they force you to get clean the hard way and im glad places like that exist.
nicks recent shenanigans were 100% meth. thats all he needed to say and thats all he should've said if anything. he doesnt owe anybody shit. glad hes clean. hope he stays that way.

 

[Meathead Jock]

Back in the day, and maybe still now, a lot of kids get put in special ed or medicated just because they can't sit still for hours. Doesn't necessarily mean you're unintelligent and no shame in it.

The stat I've always found interesting is boys with summer birthdays (the youngest in a grade in most all state in America) are more than twice as likely to get diagnosed with ADHD than their classmates.
Feels like immaturity that often comes with your placement within the 1 year group lumping can result in being diagnosed with a disability that simply delaying your enrollment into kindergarten would remove for many.

 

[Thy]

Sounds accurate. Most kids I knew in “special ed” classes weren’t exactly dumb. They were just unmotivated and didn’t have any interest in their education, so they had poor grades and got sent to special classes.

Most would drop out of high school mostly due to stigma of being in what you just said, “retard class”. If anything, I always thought these classes where more so a teacher and a parent agreeing to send them there because they failed at as a teacher and parent motivating their student/child and just making them even less interested in schooling due the stigma.

Eh, some yea, Some were genuine scumbags and ghetto ass drug dealers, but others were really smart and did well with good grades. Like my one friend that was in it, super capable person, good grades, as a teen he built his own studio in the basement did all the plumbing, sheet rocking, sound proofing, electricity. The kind of person where i just walk in and he's got two 5 gallon buckets with a pump pushing water into another and his computer wired to it cause he said he's learning a programmable logic controller to control the level of the water the way he wants. Yet this kid was in the retard class cause he didn't fit in socially as a huge person. People would bully and call him lenny from of mice n men.

I had a 148 iq in 9th grade, but was always in arguments with teachers and getting in fights with them so they kept flunking me. Even though i'd ace every test and answer questions they asked right everytime. They'd purposely fail me in their classes cause it looked like i wasn't focused or paying attention and they just didn't like me as a person.

The school system is just broken where they reward kids for seeming a certain way and not based on what their actual education and capability is. Like a bunch of braindead jocks that are actual retards. Yet they're getting scholarships for being good at throwing a ball.

Yea, i dropped out when i was 14 and got my ged that same year. Had a pretty messed up time growing up, but eventually i got into physics and chemistry and got a job i loved doing environmental work, running treatment plants and stuff. The people at my company were so impressed with my passion and ability to learn that the company owner paid for all my testing to get new licenses and they almost tripled my payrate from when i started in 5-6 years. I continued to work there for another decade til i became disabled from auto immune problems.

Made enough money to buy a weekend get away property, do some traveling, and enjoy lotsa stuff for awhile. I still technically have a lot of learning disabilities and even have a file on me from when i was a kid that just says "multiply handicapped" on the cover. Is what it is, but yea, it's just a mixing pot of every kid that doesn't belong regardless of their intelligence. But yea for the most part, it was the kids that teachers and parents didn't know how to deal with cause the teachers and parents themselves aren't capable people.

 

[whocares]

Dude was in special ed classes and became a millionaire! Crazy

There's plenty of tards out there living really kick-ass lives. My first wife was tarded. She's a pilot now.

 

[JPOMMA]

Eh, some yea, Some were genuine scumbags and ghetto ass drug dealers, but others were really smart and did well with good grades. Like my one friend that was in it, super capable person, good grades, as a teen he built his own studio in the basement did all the plumbing, sheet rocking, sound proofing, electricity. The kind of person where i just walk in and he's got two 5 gallon buckets with a pump pushing water into another and his computer wired to it cause he said he's learning a programmable logic controller to control the level of the water the way he wants. Yet this kid was in the retard class cause he didn't fit in socially as a huge person. People would bully and call him lenny from of mice n men.

I had a 148 iq in 9th grade, but was always in arguments with teachers and getting in fights with them so they kept flunking me. Even though i'd ace every test and answer questions they asked right everytime. They'd purposely fail me in their classes cause it looked like i wasn't focused or paying attention and they just didn't like me as a person.

The school system is just broken where they reward kids for seeming a certain way and not based on what their actual education and capability is. Like a bunch of braindead jocks that are actual retards. Yet they're getting scholarships for being good at throwing a ball.

Yea, i dropped out when i was 14 and got my ged that same year. Had a pretty messed up time growing up, but eventually i got into physics and chemistry and got a job i loved doing environmental work, running treatment plants and stuff. The people at my company were so impressed with my passion and ability to learn that the company owner paid for all my testing to get new licenses and they almost tripled my payrate from when i started in 5-6 years. I continued to work there for another decade til i became disabled from auto immune problems.

Made enough money to buy a weekend get away property, do some traveling, and enjoy lotsa stuff for awhile. I still technically have a lot of learning disabilities and even have a file on me from when i was a kid that just says "multiply handicapped" on the cover. Is what it is, but yea, it's just a mixing pot of every kid that doesn't belong regardless of their intelligence. But yea for the most part, it was the kids that teachers and parents didn't know how to deal with cause the teachers and parents themselves aren't capable people.

The school system isn’t broken. It does what it’s designed for: encourage and reward comformity. It’s a place to learn what you are told - rather than REALLY learning something (with passion, interest, etc.). A test is a way of checking who is a really good parrot. That’s why later in life, most people suck at their job and mediocre at what they do. They were encouraged by the school system to just follow what they are told, and get rewarded for it, instead of seeking true mastery and excellence in some area or other.

 

[Downward Spiral]

In other news: Water is wet. The sky is blue.

 

[Thy]

The school system isn’t broken. It does what it’s designed for: encourage and reward comformity. It’s a place to learn what you are told - rather than REALLY learning something (with passion, interest, etc.). A test is a way of checking who is a really good parrot. That’s why later in life, most people suck at their job and mediocre at what they do. They were encouraged by the school system to just follow what they are told, and get rewarded for it, instead of seeking true mastery and excellence in some area or other.