I am usually an A-B student, but in 8th grade i grew intensively tired/bored of middle school and my grades dropped at the end of the last trimester. I know i sabotaged my self as counselors use my grade dropping as another excuse to not let me into the excel Language Arts. (Another minor reason i became bored was because i am a year older than all my peers because i started school late)
But i still and have always scored very high on my state testing...(My nwea science and reading scores are the highest in the school)
Kudos to you for owning your mistake. Meanwhile you are not alone in having a discrepancy between high potential and low achievement; This is often called
underachievement. One common antidote to underachievement is
appropriately challenging curriculum. One might expect teachers and school counselors to be familiar with this and therefore be willing to help advocate for your placement in the class which you qualified for.
Beginning school a year late is often called
red-shirting.
