First grader says he's bored at school

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just don’t confuse this with thinking your child is gifted. Gifted children don’t get bored in school — they’re always finding something to do or wonder about.

Exactly. My gifted kid never once complained about being bored. He did later admit that didn't learn much in school until 3rd grade though.

My kid's teachers reported my kid sort of did her own thing. She would add extra words to the spelling list and write them out at the end of her spelling tests. She would write extra at school and at home on topics of interest to her and turn them in (some teachers loved this and some did not). We sent in books and workbooks. She did not complain of boredom.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP the best thing you can do for your kid is to help him not be so entitled and learn how to be bored.

I'm not judging you but we have friends who are you and I still remember how much they advocated to the teachers in early elementary for their child to get more challenge. Not all of them really needed it but the ones who got their hands held by their mother and who did not learn how to deal with boredom at school became behavior problems and some could not survive public school.

1st grade is a good time to focus on socialization at school and do creative learning at home.

Pray tell when they are supposed to work on socialization when most other kid are working on the task they were given......?

I love how kids who have special needs/behavior issues arent entitled for needing support services and other ways to be managed but if a kid is bored/further ahead in an area, they are entitled because they want support or management.

Makes you go hmmmmmm

Equity. Get your kid classified as URM and the AEI specialist might help them improve to boost the school equity numbers.

MCPS boasts that only 2 schools in MCPS (Chevy Chase ES and Blair HS) have been documented as providing MD standard gifted services.


https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/enriched/

https://marylandpublicschools.org/programs/Documents/Gifted-Talented/20102016EGATESchools.pdf

[Anonymous]

Being able to read means crossing a great divide in the younger grades. As long as reading itself is the goal, those who can read will be bored in large-group settings and those who cannot will be behind. Once they move from learning to read to reading to learn, it all changes. Be patient, and in the meantime ask the teacher (now is fine) whether DC seems at loose ends or restless in class. If not, wait a little while to request any real changes. If so, just ask the teacher whether they have any enrichment assignments they can hand to DC (and others like DC, because there are certainly others) in down moments. Remember that the teacher sees a very, very different version of DC than you do, and the teacher knows some things about DC as a student that you do not - and vice versa. It is important to understand the teacher's perspective before trying to impose yours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just don’t confuse this with thinking your child is gifted. Gifted children don’t get bored in school — they’re always finding something to do or wonder about.

When I was this age, I brought my own books to read under the desk, but guess what? I got in trouble with the teacher, over and over and over, despite the fact that I could answer the questions when called on.

Sorry, but gifted children aren't thriving in this environment, despite their ability to daydream.

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Fwiw he still needs to do these lessons because they ultimately help with proper spelling and reading of longer words.

But yes both my kids were bored in early years, one took advantage of the extra time and was creative and the other was distracting the others (which we worked on a lot, didn’t just accept).

Send books he likes in his backpack and ask if he can pull them out when he’s done. Get him a sketch book and colored pencils. He just needs things to do when he’s done doing the work in class.

[Anonymous]

They all find elementary school boring. It is.