• Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    7 hours ago

    It’s also safe to assume that the vast majority of teenagers would rather die than get up in front of their entire school to give a speech for the explicit reason that they’re the worst student there.

    • Moss [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      6 hours ago

      Yeah for sure, also one of the most brilliant people I’ve ever known, consistently at the top of their class, was a queer person from a poor single parent family, and a lot of the people who underperformed in class were from wealthy farming families. So even if someone with terrible grades had to speak, they probably wouldn’t bring up material conditions