The Japanese have a saying, “The nail that stands up will get hammered down.” I was so much faster than my schoolmates I was literally punished for it. I was also so bored that I thought I’d die, nailed to a seat while the teacher tried to get slower students to grasp whatever the subject was. School in mass classrooms with a “diverse” student body are brain killers.
“Bianca, You Animal, Shut Up!”
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2010/08/john-taylor-gatto/bianca-you-animal-shut-up/
And THAT’s just the Preface; the rest of the book is as equally damning.
I know exactly what you mean. I was also punished for being ahead of my classmates. I'd finish first, get bored waiting, and then do something truly horrible, like put my hands on my desk. Yes, doing that triggered the teacher to put me out in the hall as punishment. I was similarly punished for finishing all the reading materials of this new-fangled reading program (I think it was called SRA) in a week when it was supposed to last the rest of the school year. Instead of giving me more advanced material to keep me engaged, the teacher would punish me for finishing assignments too fast. This happened so often, I would be greeted by the principal while standing out in the hall, on a first name basis. He knew I hadn't done anything bad. I wondered why he never told the teacher to give me more work. Great educators, huh?
When I went to school there was no ‘diversity’ and the slow ones went to a separate class.
The education system expects 30 to 40 kids to be doing the same thing at the same time when they evaluate teachers. Try getting 30 adults to do the same thing at the same time ( my apologies to the USMC silent drill team). It’s a flawed approach.