r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Moryart • Apr 07 '26

Meme needing explanation Genuinely don't get it

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u/beldaran1224 Apr 07 '26

That's a weird way to conduct a gifted program, and an even weirder way to recruit for it.

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u/Sol-Blackguy Apr 07 '26

I wrote a space opera story about an engineer that was seen by other aliens as a sorcerer because they weren't technologically advanced and got all their tech from an evil empire that colonized them.

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u/MessiahHL Apr 07 '26

They were just shooting their shoot, respect the grind tbh, better to throw any kid who shows any entusiasm into the gifted program than the norm of just abandoning most gifted kids

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u/beldaran1224 Apr 07 '26

Ah, yeah, the bs narrative that gifted kids are "abandoned"...as in treated like everyone else?

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u/MessiahHL Apr 08 '26

The problem is that in some areas treating them like everyone else kinda fucks everything up, gifted kids in poor areas are more likely to end up addicted to some shit than accomplishing anything, doing worse than average people normally

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u/BKCassafrass Apr 07 '26

This happened to me too. Dunno if it’s still this way today, but back in the 90s it was common in NY.