Smart vs. Regular

We think that how many friends you have is not based on how smart you are. It depends on your personality. If you are really smart you will have friends that are very smart as well. When someone is exceptionally smart, people call them nerds and they may not have as many friends as an average person might. However, some of the most popular people are very smart, and they have a lot of friends. It all depends on the person's personality, and how they act with their peers.

Challenges that people like Charlie have could be things like people underestimating them or thinking that they are not smart. A lot of people with disabilities or learning disabilities are thought of as dumb, but that says nothing about how smart or dumb they really are. In school, children with disabilities don't take the same classes that the "smart" people have. They have to take classes of their level of learning. In the movie, Charlie really wanted to be chosen for the experiment because he wanted to be smart. "Smart" is not always measured by the amount of work you do and the grades you get, but by how much you actually understand. Some of the smartest people in the world failed classes, but they are still the smartest in the world.

"Smart" people do have challenges because their parents expect more of them and they have to work harder. Smart people try to take harder classes in school, because it could give them the opportunity to make them "smarter". Another challenge that exceptionally smart people might face is being called nerds or geeks. They are called names and picked on because they stand out from the rest of their class and people think of them as gifted, which means that they are not normal.


Dani, Israel, America