I like school, though I used to dislike it. In preschool and kindergarten, I went to a Montessori school where we learned stuff like long multiplication or a lot of geography really early. It was fun though, because we had beads and maps to help, and we chose what to learn. The teachers let us do what we wanted most of the time too. We were all just really curious. I think I mostly learned math there, while my sister liked geography more.
Then I went to a school I hated. They had rigid memorization and everything. For 3rd I switched to my current school. It's private, and the elementary school was ok, but still very strict. I didn't realize how strict it was until more recently, when I saw what normal elementary school kids do. I didn't do very well at first, because I'm bad at simple memorization.
In fifth grade, I wasn't doing that well, but my math teacher figured out that I understood the material, but I had trouble computing because I got distracted in the middle of a problem, and then restarted it in the wrong place. He put me in a math class that had about 30 kids and met once a week to teach more advanced math. The kids who passed it, about 10 of us, got put in the advanced track. Because my school is rather small, it only tracked math until high school. My school gradually becomes more relaxed the higher the grade, which suits me. I had trouble until I started ADD meds, because I couldn't concentrate.
I'm now in 10th grade, and one of the top in my grade. I'm good at standardixed tests, because by crossreferencing questions I can figure out the answer with a bit of common sense. I'm not the kid who studies nonstop, but the kid who figures out the most efficent way of getting straight A's. Last year I figured out what grade I needed on each final to end up with an A. So I studied a few hours for 1 final, but the others I just reviewed a bit. I didn't study at all for math or vocab because I could have gotten as low as a B- and get an A in the class, and I know all the vocab from reading novels. I actually got a B- on th math final.