ROCHELLE RILEY: Save that shame for the loser: "I listened as my young friend described being picked on for answering questions in class, being mocked for 'talking white'and being shunned when she wears sensible clothes instead of Britney tops and pajama bottoms, as if being covered is the new leprosy.
She sounded like kids I meet every year in my visits to high schools, kids who hide their intelligence, shred their A tests and pretend to be something that they are not - stupid. These kids, the ones who will become our lawyers and doctors and dentists and judges and politicians, who will become our police chiefs and principals and accountants, the ones whose hands will be holding the purse strings to our Social Security, Medicare, defense and education programs, are being pushed to fail."