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[quote=Anonymous]So, I actually took a real IQ test in high school. It was done over two days and was an intensive process, so they don't actually give them to the vast majority of children. I am merely one standard deviation above the norm.

Was I bored? In specific classes, particularly in ELA, history, and science. Not math, which I have never been good with, mostly because it required effort, which I did not want to give. This was a terrible mistake.

You're going to need to make sure your kid is a hard worker. It doesn't sound like he has yet developed an intrinsic sense of motivation. It's not too late (I developed mine in my mid-20s, presumably when my brain came to full executive functioning). All the intelligence in the world doesn't matter if he's not finding it in him to work. You're saying that when he finishes the work, he asks for something and gets additional boring work like word searches.

If possible, try to help your son take ownership of his learning when he's bored. Instead of asking for the teachers to solve his boredom problem (because it sounds like they can't), see if you can encourage him to start coming up with his own ideas and develop his own interests within the subjects. It's clear from your posts that he has the freedom to work ahead but chooses not to.

Does he like to read? Do art? What does he have an interest in? See if he can incorporate those interests. You mentioned science classes in particular, so let's look at that.

If he's in an astronomy unit or something, and has mastered the material, when he finishes the work in class, perhaps he could bring his own (relevant) reading material. Bring Hawking if he likes to read. If it's art he likes, he could draw some pretty cool images of planetary bodies. [/quote]

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