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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Spoiler alert: School is boring.[/quote]

Yeah, this is about the age where the enjoyment of school often wears thin. [/quote]

That’s a great message to send to your kid.  :roll: [/quote]

that not everything is fun, but we do it anyway bc it has other benefits? Yeah, that’s a horrid lesson to learn.[/quote]

No, that school has to be this awful, boring place. [/quote]

What a weird take. You're attaching morality to it unnecessarily. Some things aren't fun all the time and that's ok. There are opportunities for learning, enrichment and fun in many ways outside of the classroom.[/quote]

No, I think you're taking a request for more challenging work as an insult to the teacher.  My middle school kid had been bored in English class.  He waited a few weeks and then mentioned he wasn't finding the work particularly challenging and had finished everything weeks before it was due.  Teacher gave him extra books to read, and my kid likes to read them.  No harm, no foul.[/quote]

No, I simply said school isn't always fun.

There are other posters who seemed to take offense on the teacher's behalf. I was not one of them.[/quote]

I agree that school isn't always fun, nor should it be.  But I think there's two types of bored--the kind where the kid simply doesn't like school and would rather being doing something else than being in a classroom (in which case the kid needs to get over it), and the kind where the kid isn't being giving work that is at their level.  It's not that hard to do some differentiation for a little kid so he's not demotivated by doing stuff they find so easy.[/quote]

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