I was the “does not work well with others”

Mostly because they excluded me

Somehow both simultaneously

I was the “gifted but needs to apply himself more” stereotype up until mid-to-late teens when depression and anxiety got the better of me for real. I also always struggled with holding presentations in front of class, and that only got worse over time which did impact some of my grades.

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.

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

#2 but I wasn’t distracted. I just didn’t care and didn’t like school. Passed anyway, but was a C student.

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“Not working up to his potential.” From the teachers in the gifted program I got bussed across town to attend.

🖐️ teacher’s pet.

Both, attended TAG programs, skipped a grade, was constantly criticized for not applying self more

I was definitely the latter, I was a disgrace to the school, would never amount to anything etc. Always underachieving and was blamed for it

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

I was the former. It went really well until college when I actually needed to study. I struggle to learn by reading and am terrible at being internally motivated so… College could have gone better.

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.

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