[poulsbohemian]

My 13 year old is a very good student, currently taking high school math classes while in middle school... one of the things that the public school system hasn't figured out is how to make any of it relevant. So sure, she's brilliant and flies through the material, but she'd be the first to tell you it's just puzzles, it has no actual meaning to her. I was the opposite - because it had no meaning to me, I couldn't understand it and was a terrible math student. But, once I could view it through the lens of computer science, suddenly it had meaning and I did fine.

My oldest daughter was a terrible student. But she would say to me "If they taught history class the way you explain historical events around the dinner table, I would have been a lot more interested in studying."

So point being - it's probably not you, a lot of it really is the way we approach k-12 education. In hindsight, I'm not sure college is any better and may be worse what with the approach of hazing and weeding out.

[gnicholas]

The Khanmigo chatbot that KA is rolling out supposedly helps with this problem of relevance.