I got nearly straight A's until I was 13 or so, but I graduated high school with something around a 2.3 GPA. It was a rough time for me, but the fact that I graduated at all while missing so much school shows that the school had some compassion towards my issues.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell