By the time I got to high school, I was just a little pissed off to have native speakers in my Spanish classes. I knew they needed four years of foreign language credit for college, but all I wanted to do was learn la idioma de mi gente. I was busting my butt trying to memorize vocabulary they had used since birth. I never even came close to earning an A in that class, not in year one, year two, year three or year four. The difference is that high schools rarely offer alternatives to advanced students, while colleges do.
Colleges actually specialize in challenges.
You could have stayed home and continued to model your values and beliefs and actions after the people who raised you. But instead, each and every one of us chose to leave home and go to college. Pardon me if my assumption is incorrect, but this says you were looking for something more, something different and maybe even a challenge or two along the way. I just can't understand, then, why some students would rather avoid than face those challenges. Taking a class from someone whose style is different than what you are accustomed to gives you an opportunity to stretch yourself beyond previous limits.