... do your parents happen to own any sort of lair? Does your dad's fashion sense involve insulated gloves and welding goggles? Because this is starting to sound like a therapy session for someone supervillain-adjacent.

'Grade school, am I right? The beep test, the Milgram experiment, pop quizzes, that prison thing, haha. I'm sure everyone gets those stress dreams where you haven't studied for your Voight-Kampf test.'

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No, the elementary school I went to had this program called Learning Lab for K-3 grade. I didn't even tell my parents what was going on at the time because I assumed they just somehow knew everything that happened at school without me telling them.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Was your principle named Scudworth?

[–] ToastedPlanet@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

No, at the time the principle was a woman. She was one of the those career administrators who raises kids tests scores by any means necessary and then takes a better job in a larger town with a bigger school. The principle before that was a teacher who took the job because no one else wanted it.

I'm not sure who was in charge of Learning Lab. They mostly helped kids who needed to improve their academic performance, including myself. They used the same space as the researchers, I don't know how it was organized or where the researchers were from. Just that the pool of kids who were pulled out of class for Learning Lab was the same pool who interacted with any researchers. I don't know how many kids had the same experience as me. At least one, probably more.

edit: There was someone who was like a teacher, who was in charge in of the kids, and instruction. I'm not sure who that person reported to or who came up with the program. They were not my regular teacher for any given grade.