As congratulatory as it is to be doing very well in your classes....I doubt you're "running circles around the teacher". If there's one thing I've learned about people who are in college and are student teachers, they play the fool to make the high school students feel more confident in the subject.
If you think you're "smarter than the teacher", it'll encourage to keep doing better, as a means to make you think you are always one step ahead of him/her. Rather cruel, but it is effective















