I read Anti-Intellectualism: why we hate the smart kids… It is kind of hard to follow in a since. The story is basically about how people are judged by their intelligence. Most of the time the so called “smart ones”, get picked on and degraded by, the not so smart ones.  Many believe that the smarter people don’t have lives and that they are too worried about being smarter than everyone else instead of going out and working. A lot of the time people who are labeled as smarter than most aren’t able to do the same things what is known as normal people because many see them as being different from everyone else. They refer to the Mountain View High School football team winning the Arizona State Championship last year as being the normal people and the people that were part of the Science Bowl, Speech, and Debate Teams also won at this time. These groups represented the nerds. The football team got a lot of attention and praise for their winnings but the other teams like science and debate barely got any attention at all. All because they weren’t part the norm.

As the reading goes on it says that people that are smart really have no social life and really are not popular therefore they are excluded from some activities but some are very popular and socially active it really depends on how they take other people’s opinions of them. I personally believe if you take other people’s opinions personal and let it bother you than you really are not socially active but if you do not let what other people’s opinions of you bother you then you are a person that is socially active. It is also found that you do not have to be “smart” to be able to succeed in life. I never really knew this but some of the most famous singers were high school drop outs like Christina Aguilera and Kid Rock. I believe that the famous people should have to at least pass high school because many kids look up to these people. When the kids see that famous people don’t need to do school the kids also think that they don’t need school.