I went to public school in the USA and nobody (at schools in the region) was bullied simply for being good at math and science; in fact the social "top tier" st

I went to public school in the USA and nobody (at schools in the region) was bullied simply for being good at math and science; in fact the social "top tier" students got straight As in the hardest classes, were varsity athletes, and of course, were social. The only differentiating factor of the pariahs is they were generally ugly-weird. This trend continued in college: Those who excelled in academics got middle-class intellectual labor jobs, those who partied all the time were their bosses, and those who did both really made it big.