> you as an adult get asked to “stop helping them get ahead of the class”
Whether by parental training or self study, some teachers treat it almost as a crime to understand the material before the class starts.
In college you can sometimes talk your way out of the Intro To XYZ classes and go directly to the upper level stuff.
I had friends who did that, so taking senior/graduate seminars in history instead of sleeping through U. S. History 101, where you could get a B if you remembered Washington was president before Lincoln.
Whether by parental training or self study, some teachers treat it almost as a crime to understand the material before the class starts.
In college you can sometimes talk your way out of the Intro To XYZ classes and go directly to the upper level stuff.
I had friends who did that, so taking senior/graduate seminars in history instead of sleeping through U. S. History 101, where you could get a B if you remembered Washington was president before Lincoln.