preconception on number one

Yesterday,my mum told me that my neighbour wanted me to have an one-on-one tuition with her daughter.Delightment turned to a disaster when her start to exaggrate her daughter is always the first and second in her class but her result dropped to maybe third or fourth recently and she hope that i can help her daughter to "maintain" her academic's "conquer" in the class.It reminded my life in the secondary school,when you got the first place in the class for 4 and 5 years,suddenly you slipped in one of the semester test, then there are someone who will discuss some stupid topic like'isnt he or she is the first place?see la this is the result of his or her arrogance!"All right number one deserves the humiliation and prejudice by everyone and this is a trend or i say is a tradition.Stresses faced for being number one are heavy as you have to received an "caring" attention from the parents , some "good"teachers and juniors and of course the scoffs from students.Succeeded in coping with it just bring you the fame and glory amongst the parents and teachers,but failure may be costly. I am not blaming those who always has the prejudice on number one but they should feel guilty for their condemntions.And lastly is there any differnce to become the first and third in the class?(i mean in an fair and square situation and not influence by any score system and anyone, i am sorry for being stubborn in the past but it's a fact...)