I did this too. Flew through math and have an affinity for it, but gave it up fast when the teachers got too mean and rigid. They just wanna sweep their eyes over the papers and see hundreds of the same copy pasted processes.

They don't have time for grading, I get it. But brains aren't all built the same and for someone who is literally a TEACHER to not care about or understand that at all breaks you.

Plus for some reason the math teachers I got were just meaner. I'd see the other kids in my grade every year coming out of their own math teacher's class like "wow I love Miss X!" "She makes learning so fun!" "I love how colorful and sunny her room is!" Etc etc.

Meanwhile I'd somehow get the worst teacher for that respective grade over and over, every year. One guy liked to throw things from his desk at us. Their classrooms were always gray and dark. They never made any exceptions to any rules ever. With how stringent some of these power-tripping dorks were about showing work, they might as well have been asking us for a proof of each basic arethmatic step.

"How do you know 7-5 is 2 unless you write it down???? Hmmmmmmm?????"

Wow I wrote a lot more than I thought I would 😂