Okay. Let's break that down, when you got in trouble in third grade.
[That was the same age range Nadine herself has experience with, what she went to college for.]
You were reading ahead. You weren't ignoring the classwork, you weren't struggling with it, you weren't acting up. The only reason you weren't 'paying attention' was because the work was moving too slow for you. If anything, your teacher should have given you something more challenging to stimulate you. But I'm going to guess you come from somewhere that had pretty set ideas of how little girls should act, and all the signs that you were very smart and inquisitive were brushed off as 'acting out' and considered behavior problems.
[She's seen it before. 'Traditional' ideas can be hell for a clever, outspoken, questioning young woman. From what Julie's said of her childhood and where she grew up, Nadine doubts she was ever encouraged the way she should have been.]
A big mind surrounded by small ones gets boxed in and stifled.
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[That was the same age range Nadine herself has experience with, what she went to college for.]
You were reading ahead. You weren't ignoring the classwork, you weren't struggling with it, you weren't acting up. The only reason you weren't 'paying attention' was because the work was moving too slow for you. If anything, your teacher should have given you something more challenging to stimulate you. But I'm going to guess you come from somewhere that had pretty set ideas of how little girls should act, and all the signs that you were very smart and inquisitive were brushed off as 'acting out' and considered behavior problems.
[She's seen it before. 'Traditional' ideas can be hell for a clever, outspoken, questioning young woman. From what Julie's said of her childhood and where she grew up, Nadine doubts she was ever encouraged the way she should have been.]
A big mind surrounded by small ones gets boxed in and stifled.