The lesson is that if you are too different people will go out of their way to punish you for it? Yeah, I think it's a horrible lesson and a shame that too man

The lesson is that if you are too different people will go out of their way to punish you for it? Yeah, I think it's a horrible lesson and a shame that too many people in powerful positions get away with it. Yes, you should actually learn the material. No, you should not be punished for being gifted. The school should have recognized what they were dealing with, given you the test the second week and promoted you. Then perhaps you could have been challenged. This whole "everyone has to go at the same speed" thing is what destroys gifted people. You could have gone to college early, who knows maybe learned a lot and discovered a treatment or even a cure for many types of cancer or be the next great inventor. Instead this school taught you to be mediocre and fit it. What this school did to you and what it does to others is a travesty. As a society we are destroying our most gifted people, simply so people "feel better"