| This is going to sound odd, and I apologize. It's to a small group of teachers my older son has had over the years:
Yes, Jr does act like he thinks he is smarter than you. He IS smarter than you. Statistically, he's smarter than nearly everyone he meets. Being smarter doesn't just mean he thinks faster than you -- he thinks differently from you. He makes connections you can't see, he jumps ahead three steps at once, and by the time your class catches up to where he is, he's bored out of his mind. Of course he doesn't like doing your homework. Your homework is stupid, mindless repetition of what you said last week. I know it's not fair to you that the district requires you to teach classes with such a wide range of students in it, but I don't think that it mandates that you be narrow-minded, inflexible, and unimaginative. Try not to be jealous of your students. |