[Sonny M]

I wonder what they would do with them in school?

Punish them.......seriously, they would punish them.

Teachers do not like it when they have certain students who are way ahead of the class, look at the resentment so many asian kids get for trying to get ahead.

[Myrddin]

You're so right. My middle son convinced my wife and I to let him go to a "magnet school" for marine biology. It was sponsored by Scripps. To participate, he waited for a bus at 5:30 AM daily and took a ride into an elementary school in barrio Logan. He returned at 5:30 PM. After a couple weeks, we suspected something was wrong. The "marine biology" part was a mere ONE HOUR on ALTERNATE weeks. A whole 2 hours each month. The remainder of the time, he was in a classroom with substandard teaching. The school's primary mission was to feed the students 2 meals a day and provide daycare service for parents. My son was so far ahead of the other students that they would beat the crap out of him on the playground for doing better than the remainder of the class. Being top fly on the manure pile is no fun.

My son asked to be transferred back to our neighborhood school. It took 3 weeks to catch up on work that his classmates were doing in the neighborhood school that was not being done in the "barrio" "magnet" school. He not only caught up, but kept accelerating his efforts. I checked his English compositions after the "teacher" corrected them. Total crap...on the part of the teacher. I finished the job and made him rewrite the papers. In the end, he was tutoring the AP classes in high school in evening sessions. He often stepped in for the assigned teacher because he knew the material better than the teacher. His exam scores were 5 on all tests. Final GPA was 4.33.

Back to the original issue. Doing significantly better than your peers may result in punishment by the teacher and your peers. Expect it. Don't let it impede your desire to excel. The world is full of Luddites.

[Bigg Red]

Teachers do not like it when they have certain students who are way ahead of the class,....

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If I can make that “Many teachers”, I will agree with you. It’s sad but true. (Retired teacher here.)