Being Held Back (Mini rant for anyone who cares to read)

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I watched Good Will Hunting for the first time tonight and it got me thinking how I keep getting held back in my education.
I used to be really good at electronics but my teacher just gave me some extra worksheets and nothing practical. The next year they just stopped doing electronics altogether.
I am amazingly good at maths and when I was about 13 I got bored and the teacher gave me the same work the people about 4-5 grades above me were doing but then just left me. The head of maths even played games with me teaching me things that i'm now doing at university level as I waited for my bus at the end of school.
I got so frustrated by the time I was about 16 that I just skipped about 3 months of school without anyone noticing before admitting it to my counsellor who told the school and then they barely did anything.
That frustration kind of continued for the next two years before I got to uni. But now nothing's really changed.
Everything's still going too slowly and it's contantly frustrating me. I'm just spending my pre-exam time teaching tons of people the basics that they can barely grasp.

Does anyone who read this far have any advice what I can do?

The only advice I have is for you to embrace it. You will probably always be ahead of most people you meet in life. You are popular when you are tutoring,so use that for other parts of your life. After you graduate, you will have to decide whether to be the brains of an organization, or get a specialized job with other highly intelligent people.

Can you take some more advanced classes, so you won't be bored? Can you test out of any subjects? could you do some sort of independent study, or internship, that would challenge you?

Also if you are able to teach people, see if you can get a paid tutoring gig.

You could search through your course lists and try and get in touch with teachers from high level graduate courses (or just the student services, I don't know). They might have some idea of what you should do to get through classes faster. Maybe you could test out?

Double post, refreshed and voila.