You are so far from wrong, it hurts me to think about it.
Due to having a reading level 10 years ahead of my peers, and already having learned math concepts at least 4 years ahead of them... at age 8... I was put 3 years ahead of my peers in school until the teachers realized the other kids were having none of it.
They put me back in the 'proper' grade, because 'I' somehow wasn't going to develop social skills well enough in such an environment.
They might not have been wrong, but they would have been more correct to tune in the little buggers causing me grief. Or at least let me tune them in...
I mean, who can blame any of them, ourselves included. Instead of doing the right thing and setting the little snots straight, they instead hampered our progress all to make things easier for themselves while placating a bunch of children who needed to be taught the reality of the situation, not coddled into thinking they were 'just as capable' (when clearly they weren't).
Quite frankly, I think we all should be banding together to sue our old schools over this stuff.
Surely there’s more to life for the top 1% of learners than trying to get retribution against public institutions. One might ask if you’re really as brilliant as you say if you can’t see that - or maybe you were just early as a child, and that’s all.
I was horribly bullied for being more advanced than my same-age classmates AND older children at high-school, placing me with even older kids (with whom presumably I would have even less in common) doesn't seem like it would have helped my situation.
Yeah, no... it probably wouldn't have helped; very much so for the reasons I have stated in reply to Tambourine.
That said, I should add that 2 of those students ended up running into me again years later. They apologized, which was nice; but then offered me the chance to go do lines of coke with them...
I declined, and went on with my life knowing doubly that my instinct about them was correct the whole time. Wastes of skin.
Due to having a reading level 10 years ahead of my peers, and already having learned math concepts at least 4 years ahead of them... at age 8... I was put 3 years ahead of my peers in school until the teachers realized the other kids were having none of it.
They put me back in the 'proper' grade, because 'I' somehow wasn't going to develop social skills well enough in such an environment.
They might not have been wrong, but they would have been more correct to tune in the little buggers causing me grief. Or at least let me tune them in...