When I look at the kids of the Beckworth School, I can't help but think 'there but for the grace of God go I.'
I could have ended up like these kids.
I was lucky.
THIS is the plot that was missing from Smart Kids. If this motivation for Clark had been brought up during the episode, it might have resonated with all of us differently.
Great insight!
I wonder what kind of person I'd be now if it wasn't for the Kents. So many of my values and my sense of ethics come from them. If they weren't there, would I be more like Luthor, for example? Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
A super powered Luthor is cause for nightmares.
Sounds like a good thing for someone to delve into and discover in a fanfic.
Would Clark have ended up like Luthor had he been raised in an orphanage, treated as loser and a test subject like the Smart Kids?
There's one thing that I envy the Smart Kids, however.
When it came to their differences, they had a choice. They could choose to be normal.
I don't have that choice.
Another great insight!
My differences will forever mark me as what I am- the sole survivor of an alien world.
While this is a great line, Clark actually didn't know he was the sole survivor of Krypton until Jor-El told him so the Foundling.
It was so much harder to come up with something to write about in Smart Kids! There's a reason it's one of my least favourite episodes.
I'll agree that Smart Kids was the network's way to pander to the kids (or the show's producers to pander to the network) and not write for the show's audience, but I have to say that your story is the most insightful thing I've read pertaining to it. You've brought meaning to a plot than even the show's writers couldn't find. So, even though you struggled with finding something to say, it was a most worthwhile struggle. Well done!
. For everything that it is lacking. Virginia stated exactly what I was thinking while reading your story--you FOUND the plot! 
. I completey am impressed by this piece because if the writers had followed a bit of your lead, I think this episode could have been so much better. 
