I went to a lot of school districts growing up. My parents did not advocate for me. They just accepted what the school did.

It was a very mixed bag. Some treated me as a discipline issue, some saw me as I was but did nothing, and others accelerated me.

As I got older, I advocated for myself. My 9th grade year in a new school district the counselor placed me in the "remedial" level for all my classes. The next day I went back to him and told him I wanted all honors classes. He kind of laughed at me, but moved me up.

This saved them the later certain embarrassment of having to explain why a Freshman in remedial classes took the ACT and outscored everyone in the whole school district.

What this proves is that the so-called experts are not experts until proven that they are experts.