Somehow both simultaneously

I was gifted, pleasant to teach, and distracted the teachers by asking tangential questions that were interesting enough for them to answer, thus derailing the entire class. One teacher actually put that in my report card and complained about it to my parents.

In elementary school, the former. I was the darling of the teachers and hated by the students.

Applied self and stop day dreaming. It also didn’t help I had two older brothers who were known trouble makers. So by the time I got to school the teachers’ perception of me was already skewed. For the most part I just fell through the cracks and was pushed on to get rid of me. I graduated eighth grade with straight Fs.

🖐️ teacher’s pet.

First one, then depression kicked in and I was neither

“Gifted but should’ve applied self more,” for me. I coasted through school in the top 3 of my class every year but mainly because I was a good test-taker. Teachers never connected with me and I never engaged with the work beyond going through the motions to get an “A.”

I think my whole report card the entire time i was in elementary was NEEDS TO APPLY HIMSELF MORE.

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Yes. Thats default polite way to tell that you not very smart when it comes to learning.

Depends on which class lol. My art teachers thought I was a dream, math and english not so much.

Both. You’d get different answers from different teachers.

Teachers who knew their shit and were flexible, would say the former.

Teachers who were authoritatian and barely knew enough of their field to pass minimum standards for teaching would claim I was “lazy” or “obstinate”.

Quiet and polite in class. Bored because she can do the work. Once I was unable to coast, they got mean.

The first one ☺️ and I still like being called a good boy to this day 😇

I was in the “we’re going to put you in advanced placement as a form of special ed, because you get bored and start asking questions that are too advanced for the rest of the class” group.

Yes, those advanced “you’re so gifted and talented, so we’re going to put you in a cool class where you get to do logic puzzles instead of regular math” classes were a form of special ed. They were designed to sequester you away from the rest of your class. Not as a punishment, but because the modern school system relies on students in each class actually being at the same level. If students are above or below a certain range, they slow down instruction for the entire class, as the teacher is forced to spend extra time with just those individual students.

Most people think of special ed as just being the disabled kids, but the reality is that special ed is any kind of class that pulls you out of the rest of the class. Again, because class time is focused on the 80% of students who are at the same level, not the 10% who are above or below it. If you’re too far below, the teacher has to spend extra time rehashing material. And if you’re too far above, you end up asking a ton of questions that the teacher hasn’t built the groundwork to answer yet.

Maybe your class is learning module {A}, and students will tend to ask questions about {A} or maybe {B}. But you immediately grasped the concept of {A}, read ahead to {B} because you were bored, found a shortcut to get to {C}, and are asking questions about {D}. All while the rest of the class is still learning {A}. And the questions you’re asking won’t even be relevant until you get to {C} or {D}, so devoting time to answering them would be a waste of time for the 80% of the class that is learning {A}. So instead of letting you slow the rest of the class down, they ship you off to a “gifted and talented” class once or twice a week, to be with kids at your own level.