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22. You are not an anomaly...

There are great teachers. At least in my personal experience, teachers like your Son's had a negative effect that couldn't be overcome by the teachers who actually cared. Numerous other people have expressed the same sentiment to me. Negative experiences with teachers made school practically intolerable until I got to college.


I never thought of myself as very gifted because I was constantly in trouble at school. Looking back.... Some of the things that happened to me didn't happen to other people. Did they?
I was the only one I knew who solved all the math problems in my head and wrote down a list of answers on the tests.
I was first chair for two instruments, but I never practiced them outside of school.
I took math courses up to Diff Eq without doing any homework.
I learned how to do stoichiometry in a dream the night before a test.
My sixth grade teacher made me divide fractions (2 digit numbers) in my head in front of the class to prove that I didn't cheat on a test. Long story... but she stood me up in front of the class, yelled at me, said no one could do it (total lie), and called me a cheater.
I got 75% on an exam to get credit for high school chemistry without taking the class, seeing the textbook, or getting any time to prepare. I told them I wanted to do it and a week later they took me out of class and made me take all the tests from chemistry back-to-back.
I passed the an exam in a class that I wasn't taking. I slipped in to get a friend to skip and I had to take the test to avoid getting caught skipping. The teacher said something about it to the class when he discovered an extra test when he was grading.
At the beginning of first grade (4), I sat down with a calculator and figured out how to perform all the operations (Multiplication, division, percentages) in my head.

You might not like paying taxes, but they actually benefit both the individual and the community. I agree that it is important to know when to submit to authority. I pay my taxes too. It is also important to know when to push back. I planned to go to community college after high school anyway. Which meant I wouldn't have to send high school transcripts, so none of their grades mattered.

Maybe I just have some weird undiscovered form of high functioning autism. Doing homework emotionally hurts me and I learn nothing, but I could spend 10 minutes looking over solved homework problems and remember it for the rest of my life.