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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Child craves challenge, bored in school, it's their favorite subject.[/quote]

If it’s just one class. Allow your kid to take the class and just be bored an hour per day.

[b]Your kid should work on ways to challenge themselves other than just more and more breadth of information.[/b]  This is a good skill to hone before college; because (newsflash) the top colleges are relatively not difficult for bright students either.

My kid is not as advanced as OPs but is bored in most of their classes. They are all “easy A’s” but they are still getting a lot out of it. For example They help their peers during COmp Sci class or when the physics teacher mentions a subject, they do a deep dive into the topic on their own.

There are a lot of kids “bored” in HS. My kids math teacher allowed a schoolmate in higher level math to teach my kids AP Calc class. (This was because that student aced a hard test or had an100 average by midterms or something). Think of what that kid got out of that vs just taking an even harder class.
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How about just let my kid challenge themselves in a way that they enjoy? I have a PhD and I will be happy to help my child explore that area, if they show interest in it, but they are ahead of me in their current areas of interest. I don't have the time to manage their academic interests so precisely. If they want to challenge themselves by taking an AP exam, that's honestly fine with me.

I am just wondering if it could be done at all, and also, if it would help them with course selection in HS. It sounds like the former is difficult and the latter is not necessarily the case, as, according to the link above, they will still have to take AP classes in physics, chem and bio.[/quote]

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