pschristmas wrote:
Is your son getting enough of an intellectual challenge from his school work? Some extremely bright kids do horribly in school simply because they're bored out of their skulls, depressed because of it, and act out by refusing to do the assignments, especially the pointless assignments that don't add anything to their useful base of knowledge (like memorizing the US presidents, or repeating mathematical concepts that they already understand over and over.) Sadly, a lot of school districts base their admittance to more challenging classes strictly on the kids' performance in lower classes, so it can be hard for a parent with a child who is bored with the lower classes to convince the school district to move them.
This was me in middle school and high school.
I even tried to make assignments more fun, but would get trouble for that as well.
One time there was an assignment about writing my opinions on what a hero was. I went on in this essay to write there was no such thing as true altruism and here is no such thing as a hero, especially selfless hero.
My teacher then got extremely mad that I didn't follow the assignment. But the assignment only said to write my opinion on heroes, not to write good things about heroes.
I use to twist assignments around, I was bad like that. But it was the only source of sanity in school I use to have.
23 Dec 2010, 5:36 pm
