Terramagne colleges

[kengr]

Been re-reading some of the older Polychrome Heroics stuff, and the problems that various Finn children were having with various colleges and universities got me thinking.

At some point, someone is going to have to come up with a solution for the "genius kids" in higher education. My though is a dorm with special support for not only the young geniuses but also "regular" adults who either have problems that are similar (gaps is "social learning" or being non-neurotypical in ways that could use the same sort of support.

On the other paw, having them all clustered together like that could cause problems with them getting classed together as "problems".

On the gripping hand, scattering them around the campus would make support harder.

Not sure if there's a good answer, but even just trying variations to help will likely be better than the current mess.

Thoughts?

Comments

[acelightning73]

I had no peers as a child. Some kids close to my age, but none of them could hold an intelligent, interesting conversation - only adults did that, and patronizingly, because I was just a kid. I got put into the Bright Kids Class, which didn't help. They were all kids who KNEW they were bright, and their families had high expectations for them. I had nothing in common with them to have a conversation about. I didn't really have peers until I was in college, and some of them were my teachers.

Alas!

[ysabetwordsmith]

That sucks.

Yeah, I got along better with adults than children, the ones who found me interesting rather than alarming or intolerable.

Re: Alas!

[acelightning73]

I got tired of adults treating me like some sort of performing seal - "Say something smart, kid. Explain Einstein's theory of relativity." I had almost nothing in common with other kids my age. Instead of watching Saturday Morning cartoons, I was happier reading a book Arthur C. Clarke wrote a non-fiction book called The Exploration of Space, which I owned a copy of. ("SHe's such a weirdo! She reads BOOKS that aren't required for school, for FUN!") I didn't play games like dodgeball with other kids, I wasn't interested in "playing house" or "cowboys and indians" or stuff like that. Or maybe I'd be helping my dad work on the car, or the TV, or building a cookbook shelf in the kitchen for my mom. Or asking one of them to drive me to the library.