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(Emphasis mine.) Same here in Canada, by the way. I wasted tons of time waiting for others to catch up in elementary school, I got turned off the concept of school itself in high school (in part because of negative peer pressure - no incentive to succeed) and unsurprisingly I then dropped out in college, when things could've gotten interesting again but where we were forced into very rigid paths that wore me out.
There is an interesting and related anecdote here. Linus Pauling, who won two Nobel Prizes, one for elucidation of the Chemical bond, and the other for Peace, and narrowly missed out on two other Nobel Prizes, dropped out of high school in Oregon, I think it was his last semester, in protest over having to learn "useless stuff".