While I completely agree with you, today's society puts a lot of faith in said model.

Example, and I'm sure a lot of people can attest to this: In high school, I know someone who had a 4.0, took honors classes, but her standardized test scores were garbage in comparison (23 on ACT after 6 months of paid prep.)

Is she a bad test taker? No, she's not, hence why she had a 4.0. But when she's challenged and cannot slave away at her desk at home for 8 hours a day after school, well, yeah.

I disagree. The internet is full of people who are supposedly really smart but didn't do well in school because they were bored or whatever the excuse of the day is. More often than not, these people are suffering from the Dunning-Kruger effect.

It's not even that though... It's the child's mother's _perception_ of how they do in school.