Ooh, I have a story.

I have a pretty decent academic record, like, university scholarship at 16, international English awards, I got published when I was 13, and I was a very easy-to-get-along-with, straight A student who usually was rather diplomatic with people (happy to give them their own way if it was too much trouble). With that record and demeanor comes some certain assumptions.

The biggest assumptions are that I'm not smart other than academically and I am good at school because I am rich and life is easy.

Well, wrong. I was giving my captainship application speech at school and I mentioned hard work, some kid in the back yelled "like you've ever had to work in your life! Straight A rich bitch!" and a chant started. The entire school started chanting "straight A rich bitch!" at me.

Teachers pounced and shut it down within about 20 seconds but I've never seen a crowd of people spontaneously spit hate at anyone before or since. It makes you feel very alone, by the way.

Once it was quiet I asked to continue, and I said calmly and quietly, "Scholarships are how I afford an education. Mum's widowed. And on the drink. I can stay at the top with a home more broken than a good deal of yours. (I started crying at this point) You have a hard time? I know hard times, and I know how to get through them. Isn't that the kind of person you would want driving your success, not some passionless student with mediocre life experience? But whatever, I'm out." and I walked straight out of that hall and broke down. Audibly. Very audibly.

Two days later I got the badge. And around 80 people ended up apologising to me in the following week.

Tl;Dr Straight A student with bad home life nobody knew about, publicly ridiculed, got school captain by guilt tripping my whole school.