I've had several IQ tests throughout the years and consistently tested in the highest 1% of test takers for my age class. I was skipped past first grade as a r

I've had several IQ tests throughout the years and consistently tested in the highest 1% of test takers for my age class. I was skipped past first grade as a result at the age of 5. In my opinion that was a terrible mistake. This basically put a bullsmark on me for bullies and alienated me from my peers. At eight I wanted to be relieved of class duty since I loved the library and felt I learnt a lot more from assimilating information I wanted rather than being force-fed stuff I had no interest in. I wish I had the retort I have no when asked how this would result in a rounded education. My opinion is that kids will become interested in a field and start studying it and at some point in time they will need more practical things and ask their elders how to solve the things that would "round out" their education. Instead I just felt bored and my grades suffered. Consistent in teachers remarks is that I could be doing so much better. It sounds a bit hypocritical to me now that I actually asked to be able to do better, was refused and later scolded for not doing better. I was reading advanced physics texts at age 9, understood the difference between GR and SR. I wish that someone would have poked me in the general direction of Plato. I feel that if someone had, my intellectual development would have been accelerated a lot by it. Instead I was reading a collection of folk legends, the mythology of the Norse and a whole lot of popular fiction (both science and fantasy). I turned into a CS grad eventually and make a living coding. I think it would have happened a lot faster if there was a real program for misfit-brights instead of the minor changes to regular curricula I endured. My point is that it's not enough to detect the brights. You have to do something substantive to succeed in nurturing them.