High school education -- gifted or not -- is mostly a waste of time.... This depends on the high school and how the student approaches it. If a student just t

High school education -- gifted or not -- is mostly a waste of time.... This depends on the high school and how the student approaches it. If a student just tries to get through it, then they will with little effort and 0 learning. If on the other hand, they put some effort in, they really can learn something from some of those classes, especially if they take AP classes. More importantly, if they really put in effort into some of the semi-optional projects they can do something really interesting. Some high schoolers have done very impressive senior projects. I do think that a smart person will spend considerable time on learning outside of school though, I certainly wish I had done a lot more of that.