A rebel, huh? A particularly smart rebel, it seemed.
"Well, I can only speak for myself, but my curriculum is all about the history of advancements in scientific thought. People who challenged conventional wisdom and made our world a little bigger. And I'll have you know, most of those people didn't do well in primary school, either, but they stuck around long enough to get into colleges, where they thrived. I had the pleasure of working with a few of these giants, and you remind me a little of them, in some ways." He waited to see if this got her attention.
"If you can come to classes show me what you're capable of learning, I'll do what I can to put you in an advanced placement course. It doesn't have to be science, but I just figured you'd be interested in that, what with the dinosaur."