Why didn’t I make perfect grades in school?

The work was boring.

And my parents thought I wasn’t emotionally capable of handling skipping grades.

Except that I wasn’t emotionally capable of dealing with being bored, either.

Check my juvenile rap sheet.

Eventually, I got a scholarship to a private school.

And did college-level physics and math there.

So, academically, I was ready for college. Except they required four years of English.

Yet, when I graduated, a Junior was allowed to attend summer School English to replace a year.

I tried to ram the headmaster’s car.

(Also on the rap sheet.)