Why am I not be able to learn in school, yet am scarily smart outside of school?

Take notes. You learn from reading not liseaning so as the teacher talks draw pictures that remind you of what there talking about or take notes on what their says. It could help. Just in general care about what there saying or do extra research onyou own time. Like if you learning about clouds (which I totally did in grade 7, we got to spend almost half an hour on the top feild watching clouds and saying what type they were. Great fun) go and do extra research on clouds and turn it into something you attucallly care about. Or in socails go learn about difrent people's stories in the time frame your learning about.