Or too smart.
By the time I was a senior, I had taken everything that there was to take in HS - with one exception, AP English (which I enjoyed, had a great teacher, tested out of 12 college English credits thanks to her).
Last semester of my senior year, I had 3 studyhalls a day. Spent most of the time screwing around and sneaking off campus to buy cigarettes. Ironic thing is, the powers that be at the school wouldn't let me go to a local community college to take, say calculus or something that would have beneficial, because I "wasn't allowed to leave school grounds."
I was bored to death with school. I dropped out in my sophomore year and got a GED within a few months. By the time my class graduated I was a foreman in a local factory and ended up with a lot of my former classmates working for me.
I’m with you — technically, the only thing that kept me from graduating high school after my junior year was the requirement for 4 years of English. I’m sure I could have gotten that waived with an exam or something had I really tried.
However, I did use that final year to my advantage, taking courses I might not other have tried otherwise (music theory, psychology) and advanced (AP level) courses in chemistry, calculus, and physics. As a net result, I started college essentially 1 semester ahead of my incoming class.
My youngest had this problem, bored to death, hated school. They did let him leave and take college level calculus because the high school had run out of math classes to give him in his junior year. The community college told him he had enough credits to finish high school and get dual college credits, in one year. So he graduated at the end of his junior year with an adult high school diploma and a bunch of college credits too and not quite as bored or imprisioned.
I'm going to remember this one!