"It was always more of a chore than something useful. I don't need rote memorization for facts and figures to learn things, so having to continually regurgitate known material in new ways was beyond boring," Bart said, not wanting to really say anything bad.

"And because I was seen staring off at nothing in class and such, I got labeled a slacker and an attitude problem. It took me a while to figure out how not to end up with records in hours spent in detention."