Dennis, a highly intelligent student with an IQ of 176, addresses the audience about the isolation and bullying he faces in a standard school environment. He struggles with the irony of his mother's wish for him to have a 'normal' life while he is treated as an outcast by his peers.
DENNIS: My name is Dennis Gandleman. Around this school I am the object of ridicule simply because I have an extremely high IQ. It’s 176. My father wanted me to enroll in a special school that deals with geniuses like myself, but Mother was firmly against that. She wanted me to have a normal educati
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