“This I’m not buyin’. Makes no sense to me as a lifetime math nerd. “
Then let me explain it in simpler terms:
The kid already knew the material. They were boring him to death with simple math when he wanted to learn more.
How many times can one listen to some idiot repeat that 2X2 = 4?
Get it now?
I went through all that. I was not disruptive in class. You’re misstating the case to say that someone was standing in front of the class endlessly repeating 2X2=4 . ... Oh, you didn’t mean it literally? Then what did you mean?
In my case I recall long division tests. A friend of mine and I had races to see who could complete them the quickest as we sat next to each other in fifth grade. I was doing them one by one, and he hit upon a mass production technique, where he drew all the division signs first, then filled in the dividends, then the divisors, then the quotients, aka answers ... it was all the same.
Of course, we were sitting in the front of the class, and one time the teacher decided to cut the quiz short, just to catch him out, since he hadn’t filled in any answers yet. Brutal.
In one school the class was Literature, then English. Got pulled out and soon at a new school where the semesters were reversed. English, then Literature.
Got two doses of Lit, no English at all.
Same for Math and other classes. If you fell behind by being sick, you were left behind and never could catch up.
Wonder how I ever graduated! But I did learn a love of literature and history.
Years later, on my own, I caught up with Math and algebra, science and by my own study, electrical engineering.