Sagi Ren

Are Advanced Students Real?

I grew up in the 2000s and early 2010s, going to public school in a medium-sized city in southwest Ohio. In elementary school, we would have monthly reading tests, and according to the test, I was reading at a sixth-grade level when I was in second grade. My mother was informed that I was “above the average” and I was placed into advanced classes. We weren’t separated from the rest of the class, just given different selections of books to read and occasionally higher-level math lessons in a separate room.