And, for the record, getting As in high school doesn't mean you're smarter than those who don't. I, for example, had a low-B average through high-school mostly because of illness, but partially because I really didn't care for homework. Since homework tends to make up most of your marks, I did much worse than I could have done. So, despite attending less than 1/3 of my classes and not doing half my homework through the grade 11 and grade 12 years, I still managed to make the honour roll in 5 of 8 terms.
Do I care that I didn't get straight As ? No ... Why ? High school didn't mean shit to me ... High school wasn't interesting in the least, it was just a step in life that everyone has to take unless they want to condemn themselves to working in fast food for the rest of their lives.
Does getting straight-As in high school make one smarter than someone who does not ?
Anyways, the moral of the story is that high school is a cake walk compared to the rest of your life. Just because you can do all that stuff in high school and maintain good grades, it doesn't mean that it's not going to affect you when you actually need those brain cells.
Oh, and I still made honour roll despite being discriminated against by a couple of teachers (both of whom were fired). They would constantly 'nit-pick' my essays/essay answers, give me poor marks on projects, etc. I kept all my papers and made the case after the school year. How does one score 100% on multiple choice and only score 50% on essay questions ? How does one get 37% on a project while his partner receives 80% ? (Sad thing is, she was sick that weekend, so I had to do ALL the work myself.) How do you explain a teacher recommending that one should not take the provincial exam because one is failing her course, yet one pulls off the best mark (96%) on the provincial exam of any student in her class ? Pretty hard not to get fired when you do that ...