Basket.

http://www.todayonline.com/articles/85604.asp

I read the second letter, and my thoughts were along the lines of how any person could possibly be so stupid and so intelligent at the same time.

"You see, GEPers (as we call ourselves) are more mature than most mainstreamers, the result of being the the GEP. The mainstreamers think we are snobbish - when they stereotype us, they are being immature."

See the way she contradicts herself in the same paragraph? Beautiful. So the plebeian mob of "mainstreamers" is "immature" and below your Imperial Majesty's station? Honestly, how the fuck can you not see that you are merely confirming what others think of you? Call yourself "gifted"?

"I didn't have many good friends because I found my classmates to be immature."

Translation: I was a social outcast and utterly failed to develop any meaningful social skills because I behaved like a complete bitch to my classmates. I cut myself and cried myself to sleep every night because life was such a deep, dark hole that worst of all, I knew deep down to be of my own making.

"But when I entered the GEP I was impressed with my classmates and now we can't bear to part ways."

Translation: I met the similarly socially inept after I entered the GEP, and we got on well because we all suck at socialising with other people.

"Unless someone is transferred out of the GEP, or changes schools, we have the same 52 or so classmates throughout the three years. This forces us to become good friends."

The fact that the load of you behave like you are too good for the unwashed rabble that is the "mainstream" helped a lot too. When actually, the "gifted" can make a point, contradict it and fail utterly to realise that all in the same paragraph.

"We were all mainstream students before the GEP. Most of us found it boring in mainstream classes, as we knew most of the curriculum and it was easy to get good grades. But when faced with someone at our own level, we step up our efforts to compete."

What? I beg your pardon? Again? Did I hear... something about... not being snobbish?

"The GEP broadens our experience."

Yes, it certainly does, because it puts the lot of you into a special programme for six years where you are confined largely to meeting and interacting with people just like yourself!

"Would we be able to do that in the mainstream, where everyone follows the trends or the person who is the 'coolest', and everybody starts gossiping if anyone talks to someone of the opposite sex?"

Yes - this is her paragraph of crowning glory. I'm sorry, did you speak out against stereotyping earlier? Well, I guess it is ok for the gifted elite to stereotype the unwashed masses, but it is definitely not alright for the rabble in the streets to start doing the same to Your Imperial Majesty and her consorts!

"Nobody except us, the GEPers, could know how much fun we have being in the GEP."

As far as I am concerned, you can stay there and have your fun. The non-GEP streams don't need people like you.

Honestly, this person is supposed to be among, what, the top 1% in the country? This socially-inept reject with a grossly-inflated sense of self-worth and a missing sense of irony? I don't care if she could prove Fermat's Last Theorem before she could walk, the fact that such people are considered among our nation's brightest prospects shows that there is something seriously wrong with our system.

I have argued against the GEP here before. I think Little Miss Princess here proves the points I made back then. All it does is produce people like her. Who think they are very smart, but in reality, are dumber than lampposts.

But maybe it's a good thing, after all - the exclusivity of the programme means I'll probably never come across a queen bitch like this one. Yes, the GEP can stay as the storehouse for the socially inept and ironically deficient.