Hi Mint :)
Having better grades does not make people smarter than you are.
I do not know what you will think of my school experience( It is far behind for me but still very engraved in my mind)
I was the silent child that rarely spoke any words unless teachers were asking me to answer something which was rare to happen.
the others children liked to look down on me thinking I was a fool,
one day the teacher asked something to the class and even those people who thought themselves being smart-ass could not answer the teacher, seeing that no one answers I decided to answer for once because I was not a fool and knew the answer,
the teacher congratulated me and the other children were annoyed that me, the one they took for a fool outsmarted them, did I toppled them down their height? probably.
They always bullied me so I did not care at all about their feelings.
Yeah school is mostly more about grades and memorize stuff temporary than really knowing it, that is why most children cheats even though you need to know some stuff too.
I was having bad or average grades depending on the class,
Language class( my default language) I was doing alright with good enough grades, usually 70-75% with sometimes a peak in the 80%
second language of my country I was having weaker grades as It was not my default language and I always hated being forced to learn it without even knowing why ( it is not harder to learn than English..I just did not cared about it) My grades on that were like 60%
I was bad at math and my grades were bad usually between 50-60% with sometime 70 %
I liked History class but we barely had 2 hours a week and sometime nothing at all, that was one of the 2 classes I liked and studied hard for, my grades were between 80-90% with peaks above sometimes.
I like drawing since I am very young and whenever there were art class I always had good grades because the teacher saw I was really into it and drawings were alright.
That was like this for the first 6 years of school but then I failed the six one just because I had gotten a 46% in maths...so I had to do one more year, I do not remember grades on math after but I was always bad at it anyway.
Trying to not get into too much details but between being bullied all the time by other children and my father or stepmother saying "you should try to get better grades, look at the grades of your brother"...
Also this is something I want to talk about:
Being left-handed always been one reason to being bullied even by teachers or anyone else, stepmother bothered me a lot about it as much as teachers, during my fifth year of school I though to give it a try so they would stop pestering me about it, did that change anything? absolutely not..it was hard for me to write with my right hand, I was slower and they blamed me for being slow.
One day I thought something like "I am done with this" and decided to get back to myself, I am left-handed by default so that is how I will always be, they will not force me to be what I am not.
They were really angry with me after but I did not cared at all.
For them it was like being a witch or the hand of the devil.
MY years as teenager were even worse, I was getting bullied
like always, things at home were getting worse with my father and stepmom, my brother was always praised for his good grades while I was the black duckling with my bad grades,
The ten year of school was the worst, I had decided that I wanted
to study to be a cook, I always liked cooking.
That school was the worse I ever seen, most of the teachers were full of themselves, one even told me a bad word when we were introducing by turn in the class, I was stunned, needless to say that this course did not went well at all, I never cared to follow what that teacher was saying and started to skip her class, I decided to skip other classes that were annoying with like math or another because I hated the teacher, I am sweet and peaceful but once someone is bad with me I do not do what they are asking if I did nothing wrong, some teachers liked to pick on me like the other children in the classes, I failed that year with grades so bad due to that.
My father was so angry and did not tried to understand me,
after that I did not want to go school anymore( I was 15 that year)
of course you do not stop school at 15, my father forced me into another school near home because he knew I would not go if it was far from home, I went to school but I was done with all the shits.
(sorry for the bad word I cannot find another word to say instead)
In that new school things were a bit better but I did not really cared anymore about studying, there were various kind of classes along with the usual stuff, I was sad that there were no history class but that just how it is, except from cooking class(bakeries) and art class I did not cared about anything else, I was drawing in classes most of the time not giving a care about what teachers were saying, Oh there were a sewing class too which was a nice thing to be honest but I was not very good at it sadly.
I stopped school when I was 19, I was not getting good grades and stuff and I was past the forced age of school anyway.
Needless to say adult life does not go well like this, the grades change a lot of things in this world...nothing about being smart,
I see people that has been successful in school, are they smarter than I am? No.
And yeah we are being taught stuff we will never need unless it is needed for a job.
I always tried to study to the best I could but things just did not worked out well for me.
Despite writing a lot on itchio (and discord) I am an introvert which does not help either in adult life to get a job, extrovert have it easier.
I never though I would write that much on a comment.
Is this what you expected to hear from people?