Paradise spread out with a butter knife.

[The Joker]

I feel like I'm much smarter than other people my age, yet I don't hand in enough work, or spend enough time on my work to reflect that in my grades.
I really want to get into some sort of advanced schooling to challenge me...I'm afraid of wasting my potential. I'm not meaning this in any sort of cocky way, I'm not a brain that acts like they're better than their peers because of their intelligence, I just feel like a lack of challenge, or a lack of interest in the simple things we're learning in school is wasting my knowledge. I have a high interest in university, but the things I'm most interested in don't become possible high school classes until grade 11 or 12. I'm half venting here, but also asking for advice as to what to do.

[Iceman]

I feel like I'm much smarter than other people my age, yet I don't hand in enough work, or spend enough time on my work to reflect that in my grades.
I really want to get into some sort of advanced schooling to challenge me...I'm afraid of wasting my potential. I'm not meaning this in any sort of cocky way, I'm not a brain that acts like they're better than their peers because of their intelligence, I just feel like a lack of challenge, or a lack of interest in the simple things we're learning in school is wasting my knowledge. I have a high interest in university, but the things I'm most interested in don't become possible high school classes until grade 11 or 12. I'm half venting here, but also asking for advice as to what to do.

I feel the same. Sure I'm in the top 10 in my class, but I don't try. Everything they teach at my school just seems to be bullshit. But next year I'm taking 5 out of 8 classes that will atleast spark some educational want inside me.

[Ambrosia]

Tell your parents and ask to get transfered to a private school that's more challenging. Or, sign up for college classes in your later high school years. Take advanced classes, Calculous, and so on! Public school systems are far from challenging unless you deliberatly ask to be challenged.

You can take college classes once you're a junior/senior in high school usually and probably during the summers!

[kai99]

Tell your parents and ask to get transfered to a private school that's more challenging. Or, sign up for college classes in your later high school years. Take advanced classes, Calculous, and so on! Public school systems are far from challenging unless you deliberatly ask to be challenged.

You can take college classes once you're a junior/senior in high school usually and probably during the summers!

Seems a good idea.