While Bryant didn't have anyproblem with the schoolwork he was often assigned he had a very short attention span and grew bored quite easily. When he did do his work he would generally get A's or B's but his average grade in class were C's... except for power practical. There he either got straight A's or detention from overdoing it and damaging something unintentionally... it wasn't his fault that his powers were difficult to control.

His electrokinesis could simultaneously be easy to control and highly erratic. He still needed to focus to do the complicated things his teacher wanted him to do while all he wanted was to throw bolts of lightning at the targets. He could of course do other things with it but he did see any point in trapping people with lightning cuffs when he could just beat them into unconciousness.

"Your mom worries way to much. She needs to chill and let you learn from your mistakes instead of trying to keep you from making them at all." He said dully "My parents made sure to supervise me if I was going to do something stupid. Sure I got hurt but I learned valuable lesons as a result... like making sure to secure my bottle rocket launchpad so they don't fall over when they launch."