slowball

(also slow ball ) n. a person who is slow of thought in at least one to several capacities, and whose influence on others nearby, either by deliberate action or selfish behavior, or passively, serves to vex, retard, frustrate, hinder and annoy said others, leading to a breakdown of a stable system, regardless of intellectual superiority, giftedness, or talent, of the individuals making up the system. also known as “survival of the dumbest”. (This term is also expandable to cover Siri mistakes, mistyped words, or anything else of the kind which can frustrate a user of electronic devices to record thoughts, ideas, or vital communications, among others things, to the point that the user may revert to a pen and paper

“Yeah, I bet that he could have finished high school at age 12, then gone on to Harvard,, MIT, or Yale, if the creeps in those backwater public schools hadn’t slowballed him.”