For what this means to effect of intelligence in society, My American Education;<br><br>When i was in the 3ed grade i met a kid with a computer (this was around 1993-94) and at that time i was already fixing my own bike and friends, building club houses from scratch by myself with a friend. I became almost enchanted by the functions and programing that allowed to load a game, for the first time i saw the mechanics of how games loaded. Directories, Data paths, Instructions, and execution of that in order.<br><br>I asked about said classes in school, the teachers told me if i get all B's i would be able to get a class.. I got all A's and two B's. They told me the classes where full. In fourth grade i simply didn't do my homework as i learned the work put in wasn't justified. Still really liked school and got all A's on tests no problem, they had me see a Doctor once a week for a few hours during school hours for a few months. Which would be the most stimulating experience in my life up until then and for the next few years. I had no idea i was taking IQ tests. I also technically failed 4th and 5th grade. And in middle school i was always taken off from all curved tests, then in the 8th grade i was put in behavioral classes.. despite never hurting a kid before that (first month in class a kid ran at me swinging and i fought back).<br><br>High School was much better, although you still had to delegate yourself (in many cases the parent would put pressure on the school) into classes rather than test into them. I had a few Collage courses that i found oddly relaxing. But i carried over the very bad habit of never doing my homework.. So much so that when i found out that only the last two years are looked into for collage application i would ask the teacher at the beginning of the semester how much each test counted towards the grade and how much the homework counted, so i could quickly figure what was the least amount of homework i could do and shoot for a C in class. I was a proud 1.2 GPA student that never failed a class.<br><br>2ed year Physical Science (which i would be a natural at) i was told the finale exam would be 50% of the grade, Wonderful! that meant tests where 25% and i didn't really have to do any homework. To keep it short, i did the test in pencil and someone took notice, erased my name and put there's. Ok, not a big problem.. the teacher asked me where my final was, we looked though the stack so i could show the teacher i handed mine in. Of course, we found it and first showed that was my hand writing then even the indent of my name where it was erased from. Same year, all deans/principles and major heads called a meeting with me and my mom. There i was told how different my tests where from everyone else, that i was in the top 1% with only two other kids in all grades of my school (2,800), and gave me my IQ report of about 30 pages. They where there to motivate me, but i didn't understand the reason for wanting a motivation as i wasn't privy to higher classes. I also took my ACT test my sophomore year as i already had almost all the credits i need to graduate. I received a 31.<br><br>I wanted to stay in high school with my friends, so kept off classes i needed to graduate until my 4th year. Three months before graduation i was called into the deans office. I was told i never passed Physical Science, I told them what happened and it meant nothing in any way. There was no summer school to make up for it, i couldn't just take the final again to prove i deserved the pass. I had to come back the next year despite having more credits than needed before graduation.<br><br>About 3 weeks before school ended i was in economics class. The teacher was talking about a tax plan that i looked into because it was in the subject matter a week earlier. The teacher was blatantly wrong, I brought up the rates and effects of such. He simply said i didn't understand and kept teaching the class, few minutes later after sitting in my seat in a daze about what it meant to know but that meaning nothing i had an epiphany if you will. I simply stood up and walked out. The teacher asked where i was going, I clearly and enlightenedly replied "to drop out". Went the my local collage the next week, where i was told i had to wait for my class to graduate. Apparently you can't just drop out and get a G.E.D., you're conscripted to High School. Either way, i waited and got my G.E.D. "Highschool Equivalent" and didn't get one question wrong, except for on the written portion. Think i got about an 80.<br><br>What i learned in the next two years on my own now that i had time to myself was almost twice what i learned in 4 years of high school. A system there to aggrandize itself as a motive to justify a subpar education with no practical alternative. It's not there to teach kids life skills, not there to effectively learn, not even there to even teach you the right way/thing at times. If you're a kid of average intelligence there's no reason you shouldn't be able to graduate in 2 years if you only take your required classes. If done, that would also make null all the excess personnel and subpar classes.<br><br>I have a friend with a Master's in education from U.I.C., she loves her job and doesn't find it difficult. She is absolutely exhausted by other teachers that ruin lesson planes and or receives kids that simply weren't taught despite passing "tests" that said teachers also make themselves. She tells me half of her energy goes into fighting other teachers that many times argue lesson plans in spite because they don't have the same degree. That's where the teachers union comes in.. but that is something i honestly don't know anything of for good or bad.,(reply>), It's a shame you weren't in the UK education system. My partner would get horrible marks on their homework and many teachers didn't like them. All that mattered was the standardized tests for the classes taken at the end of the year which they would crush.