is he bored

[acm]

my oldest child is quite bright is iq being assesed as being in the superior range.currently he is nine years old.he is in year 3(he should be in year 4 but repeated preschool due to social and emotianal inmatuity) he is in a split 2/3 class.his teacher is usually a year two teacher and dose seem to give her twos more oppitunities ie the brighter twos read the three books have been sent  to extenion classes while the threes are stuck with year 3 books.i know the reading books he is sent home are way to easy for him the books he brings home are the type he has  all ready read in years two and one.he has complained in past terms this year that the work is to easy .when i asked the  teacher about the work level  she told  me it was'nt to easy.the last coupple of weeks he has complained that he dosnt want to go to school he says he would learn more off the internet and that the teacher go's on and on about a subject even though he knows it he also complains that the mathes they do at mat time is to easy.now the question for a lot of this year  he has appeared to be quite frusrated and angry at home.could this be because of the lack of challnge in the classroom .could he be bored and frustrated in the class room and taking it at out home.the other day at home he was doing work at home on the internet  at home that he found interesting and all that night even after he finised on the internet he was such a happy boy.  when doing extra work stuff at home he does appear to be quite happy or could it  just be part of growing up

[Kevin Kennedy, Ph.D.]

In all my years of clinical practice, I frankly have never witnessed a case of a child acting out to any serious degree due to boredom. Now, this does not mean that the program at school is sufficiently challenging for him - I'm in no position to know that. But I'd be disinclined to ascribe his behavior to boredom at school.

[horse]

I'd check out the school. You can get a rating on how well the scool scored on the API, or where on stanford test www.cde.ca.gov/ my son was in a school that scored a 6  out of 10 on the API, he was always bored getting into troble and did'nt like school and was reading way below the leave he could.  We move and I put him in a school that scored a 9 on the API.  Now he's doing great, he the highest reader in his class and he loves school.  So you might look into changing schools, you would think they would all have the same standers, but they don't.  Good luck

[boyohboy!]

My son had a similar situation dueto boredom in Grade 3...he stopped doing everything and tuned out. This drove his teacher nuts, so she constantly was "on his case" which led to bad behavour...you get the picture! Luckily, the school had a sensitive "Challenge" teacher who understood what was happening and my son went to Challenge class several times per week. The harder the work, the more creative the work, the happier he was.
He is now in Grade 6 and, in spite of teasing because of the different way he thinks, he is happily pursuing high school topics.

Social immaturity and academic giftedness do often go hand in hand. It is possible for a child to be able to perform academically at a Grade 6 level and socially be a Grade 2. I know! We've been there.