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[quote=Anonymous]The child is not interested in whatever is being presented.  There are a variety of reasons including LDs, not being ready to learn whatever it is (including missing part of the foundation, incredibly common and overlooked though it is), having already learned and retained the process/information, needing a different teaching style, needing more movement or social interaction in order to understand and retain, etc.  The vast majority of problem behaviors (kindergarten and beyond) are due to a teacher's inability to teach to all of the children at the same time.  It's not the teacher's fault, as the children have such disparate abilities and interests that trying to have everyone learn everything at the same pace is futile.

Parents who brush off actual behavior issues needing intervention (3yo biting and hitting) as boredom is completely separate.  That is not a child reporting that they are bored due to not understanding, bored because they already learned it, bored because they feel like it goes in one ear and out the other.  At 3, children aren't telling their parents, "I bit Suzy because I was bored with playing with the truck."  They're saying, "I want the doll," if they even remember the biting incident from the morning when they're picked up 4 hours later.

I firmly believe that most (all?) children will eventually be bored by something at school.  That's not a bad thing.  Part of school's purpose is to teach academics.  They also teach listening to authority figures other than parents (like a manager at work), time management (so please don't rescue your child who didn't start their 3 page paper until the night before), waiting quietly and patiently, teamwork (and what happens when the team doesn't work together), and doing whatever the assignment is without regard to the child's interest in the subject (so telling them they don't have to do the work if they already know how to do it is counterproductive).[/quote]

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