First grader says he's bored at school
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Anonymous
| I was like that as a kid, and you know what? My parents told me to suck it up, because being bored is part of life and learning to tolerate it is important. I shut down complaining generally for my kids, and they don't do it, at least to me. I don't want to hear it. |
Anonymous
Wrong |
Anonymous
Wrong |
Anonymous
I would move this over to the special needs forum OP. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
OP do not do that. |
Anonymous
Teacher here. IME this is true unless that gifted kid is 2e. Some of my 2e kids get bored and have a hard time with that but most of the other extremely bright kids I've had tend to find ways to occupy their time and are not bored. These are those kids reading Harry Potter at 5 that you read about on DCUM but in reality there are not that many of these kids. Later many do end up going to magnets or private. |
Anonymous
Why can't you just send him back to the Montessori? Sounds like you've given your child every advantage so he's well prepared for school. This is a good! But if you don't like it and he does not like it send him back to private. Like other said, don't confuse a well-prepped kid with parents with enough money to send him to a Montessori with thinking your child is special and gifted. Things will shake out more in 3rd grade. Late readers will catch up to early readers and by 4th the really bright students v. the really well prepped ones will be more obvious. MCPS and some other districts start the gifted magnets in 4th for a reason. |
Anonymous
| First two weeks is a lot of this. Especially for new kids. They dont have ability reading groups yet. Still doing routines etc for most kids. And yes public school with 20+ kids in class is a lot more waiting before getting to anything challenging. |
Anonymous
Don't be an a**--plenty of kids are bored at MCPS and it's totally normal that they complain to their parents--you don't need to use your psychology degree from the University of Nowhere to misdiagnose a kid online. |
Anonymous
+1 A kid complaining about things being boring two weeks into school needs to give it a chance. They've barely gotten started and are still assessing the kids. Wait until he's been assigned to small groups for math and ELA and they start coursework in earnest. Then check in during the fall parent-teacher conference to see if he's been appropriately challenged and if not see what else can be done. I also had a kid who started 1st reading well above grade level and the truth is that ELA will be kind of boring for these kids that year. What wound up happening is that my kid was given science texts to read while the other kids worked on phonics she'd already mastered and this inspired a great passion for science. She also greatly improved both her spelling and handwriting that year. It's fine. |
Anonymous
The same is true for my child. She said they are teaching "baby stuff" at school, and she's bored. I started packing her books to read when she's bored. I'm reluctant to say anything to the teacher as I don't want to be viewed as difficult or make her job harder. |
Anonymous
| He will be bored until fourth grade. It is what it is. |
Anonymous
+1 MCPS has some capacity to differentiate, and there's no need for an advanced kid to sit quietly and "tolerate" school when the teacher can assign more challenging books or longer writing assignments without too much issue. This is not an uncommon issue--there's just some dumb parents on this thread who want to turn everything they consider "abnormal" into some form of mental issue. |
Anonymous
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