that is what I hear from son every day except on tuesdays.
he is so bored ,he cries about it at home.
he is in 5th grade ,and can;t stand getting up in the morning to go to a boring place.

and no he is not a bad student: his lowest grade is in language art: 96/100,his higest math : 100/100/
he does all of his assignment/homework....anything that he is told to do ,he does it.he is well behaved.never been in trouble before.....

he has 3 different teachers during the day ,and 1 PACE teacher on tuesday(the only day he likes to go).
what can I do? I know ,i need to approach his teachers,but don't want to be rude: hey your classes are boring....
what can I tell them?
i do not want more homework,he is not bored at home. ...

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Well... if my kids say that they are bored at home, we give them extra chores to do and sometimes that means some BIG jobs (so they never say they are bored at home anymore -- not that they really were ever bored anyway... LOL...) .

I'd approach it the same way with school... I'd talk to him and tell him that if he is bored at school, I'll speak with his teachers and I am sure that they can give him extra work to make it less boring for him.

The words, "I'm bored" are not allowed in our home... there is a negative consequence every time.

Try it, it might honestly make him relax and stop saying it.

I also want to add that I hope that it works out... he is coming into the difficult pre-teen years and it is hard for some little boys to enter manhood. My DS had a really hard year in 5th grade and he had THE most wonderful teacher. Hang in there Mom!

he told me friday that he wanted to be challenged....that at school it is too easy.....he just want more....
but right now they reviewing again for the test before the end of the quarter...the big CRT....

I am also thinking like you cuthie ,that the 5th grade pre teen stuff is not easy on him....

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I would definately talk to his teachers and/or the principal. Perhaps he is not being challenged enough. Does his school offer a gifted and talented program?

Do you mean this literally? Does he really cry because he's so bored in school?

oh yes he does,this morning again,he was crying.he just doesn;t want to go to school(maybe I should make home boring. ,but I like to have fun!!!!)....he is bored out of his mind.,but thank god he is not acting up/out in class.he just sits and look at the ceiling,counting the number of tiles and multiplying by odd numbers....ok ,I got a weird kid on my hand.........he wants to do more.but a lot of kids in his class are just goofing around,this is not tolerated.but they do not do their work.teachers have to repeat over and over the same thing .so during the tests they can make it.which is absurd.they are giving extra points for extra questions...and ds end up with 107/100
he is already in a gifted program one day a week.the only time he likes to go to school,which is tomorrow......

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I feel your pain. My youngest ds was complaining of the same thing last year. Luckily, due to other problems with the school district, my 2 ds are being home schooled. Try talking to the teachers (have him present at this meeting) to see if you can come up with a solution. If this keeps going on he will probably fall behind because he stopped paying attention and will not get key information.
Judy

I had a similar problem last year with my dd, only she didn't qualify for the gifted program, according to "THE " test result - no matter she was reading three grade levels above.... ANYWAY, you should definitely speak with his teacher or principal and ask what other activities he could participate in school (my daughter got involved with the school newspaper, the service club and chorus) - often times these activities get them out of the classroom - at least occasionally - and into an activity they enjoy. My daughter looked forward to those days.

Now that she is in middle school, things are looking up. There are classes like wood shop, computers, band and an awesome art teacher to keep things interesting.

Finally, if you don't think your son is being challenged in school, and changing school isn't an option, look for opportunities outside the classroom to keep him from losing interest. We tried saturday community college classes (science), art school classes, public library reading group, etc...

Good luck and don't let your school stand in the way of your child's education!!

I have the same problem with my 3rd grader - he says he barely does anything all day (meaning he does his work so easily/quickly that he is sitting there bored most of the time waiting for everyone else to get done). He is in the gifted program one day a week and he loves it, but the rest of the week he tells me he is bored.

What do you all suggest as a solution for this?

I taught first grade for many years. The one set of parents that made huge issue of their child being *bored* ended up getting the Principal to agree to me (the Teacher) getting together extra work for the child... a sort of individualized program that he would go and get things out of to work on whenever he finished his work early.

The individualization didn't go over well with the child though and so he eventually started to slow down on his work and do a neater job and skipped the extra stuff altogether...

When all was said and done, he ended up disliking the decision that we had come up with.

So, I am wondering what you all propose as a solution outside of homeschooling or sending to another school?

I would approach the teacher and see what she says. Depending on what she says, I would go from there.

I have heard the same things from quite a few parents at DS's school of the past few weeks. My DS has said it a few times too. He has 3 special needs children in his classroom and the teacher has to spend a lot of time with them (there is no assistant, despite parents best efforts to request that one be assigned to our class). Honestly, I wish they could group children by ability and not age (which I know they will never do), or at least let the brightest students skip a grade for certain subjects. Lots of studies have shown that kids who are allowed to advance academicall are much better off later in life than those who were required to stay with their age peers in school.

My DS is breezing through his work, but he does not qualify for the gifted program because according to the tests he is not 'motivated'. I don't know how you can have a written test for motivation, but they do. I always joke that they didn't offer him a reward if he did well on the test -- that would have motivated him <lol>.