@Hyolobrika @gabriel homeschoolers pretty regularly wipe the floor with public schulers in standardized tests :neocat_woozy:

some of it has to do with schools are basically child prisons where you are forced to do things you do not care about, at a time you want to do something else, without any context, and then sent home with busywork (even though documentation has said homework is bad since 200 something years)

problem with some of that is i might be bored of multiplication tables and want to move on to trigonometry. maybe i'm ready for that, or maybe i get humbled and have to step back down to an easier subject (but now i'm doing so with the context of what i'm looking forward to), but public schooling doesn't really support that.

every step is about making sure you are crushed and easily managed.