Like my sister, she'd post something like that... she just turned 17...
But a lot of whats going on with kids and education stems from the way the schools are wanting their teachers to teach...
When I was a freshman in English, we were given a vocabulary book that had lessons for each week. I looked at me teacher and said, "Mr. Blake, I had this vocabulary book in seventh grade." He asked if I had attended a private school, and I answered yes. He said that private schools are more advanced learning, and that he even thought that the vocabulary books belonged in a middle school classroom as opposed to a high school classroom... he said I should have no problem passing the vocabulary then. That was in my third year of freshman english... I was lazy ;) I would have passed the second time, but the teacher I had lost my report on Romeo and Juliet and claimed she "never found it" which I believe to be crap, especially since she made it clear she did not like me.
My teachers always asked why i didn't work, and how was I passing the tests with flying colors. I actually told my history teacher that I was bored and that the work was too easy and I didn't feel the need to study something I already knew. He said that even though he was sympathetic to my reasoning, that I should at least do the work and pass the class with an A. Especially since the test scores showed that I could, if I turned in my work.
The only class I had a very very hard time in was Math. Math is like Russian to me... I don't understand any of it...
If our school had had placement testing, things would have been different. I would have loved the opportunity to be in honors history or honors English. I could have skipped one of the classes I didn't even need too...
But I'm going to be in college so I'm happy.