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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I worry about the posts that say that school should be wall-to-wall fun. We're basically creating a generation of kids who need to have their entertainment supplied by video games, hovering parents and now, some of you apparently think, the schools. This is not going to create functional adults -- even in the 1%.

A little boredom in school is fine. In fact, it can spur kids -- both normal kids and the geniuses -- to invent mental and other ways to cope. Obviously nobody supports constant worksheets, or classrooms where there is no tolerance for non-disruptive things like doodling. But those are the extremes. I tend to doubt when I hear a parent going on about how some school is being cruel to some brilliant kid. For example, I heard of one extreme case in my kid's magnet where a mom was outraged that her too-cool-for-school kid wasn't allowed to read novels in science class. Really, there are limits to how much teachers can allow while maintaining control of the class. Nobody is such a special snowflake they should be allowed to set an example for everyone else to ignore the teacher too, or allowed to cause disruption. [/quote]

I vividly remember that a good chunk of second grade for me was filled with an investigation I was undertaking as to who stole my pencil.  I had made an elaborate, executive-style pencil stand out of clay and some found ball chain on top of my desk.  I suspected the janitor, made some traps, and filled a binder with my findings.  I am not gifted, but obviously had time on my hands.  I loved my second grade teacher and designed a very plush reading nook in the corner that year with her approval.

Lectures can be boring if you aren't interested in the topic, but school projects is where kids, anywhere, can shine.  I loved making books for our book fair in first grade on, and beginning 4th grade we got major projects and I went overboard because I could explore and create.  My 4th grader got to pick some of his research topics this year, yet still has little interest in working on them.  I don't know why this is, and makes me a bit sad.  We're trying to help him, but I don't know the answer.  [/quote]

It is possible that your son has a different learning style. I an relate. I deal with lectures just fine. But hated school projects. [/quote]

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