Bad school memory- from light to heavy

HImom
Sat, 15 Nov 2008 15:53:54 +0000

My S was also reading in preschool. Fortunately, he was allowed by his teachers to roam the classrooms & get books to read while he was in kindergarten. He loved going to the 2nd grade & choosing books about performing magic tricks & playing chess.

In 5th grade, we went on a trip & the teacher assigned him literally an inch of homework. He was annoyed but finished it all in the six-hour plane ride. He ended up totally bored & having nothing to do for about a month after he came back until the rest of his class caught up with him. That teacher finally let him & two of his classmates go at their own pace for the math book. They raced each other & plowed through the book in less than a month & were the only students ever in the history of the school to finish the math book. S was so gleeful that he had no math homework for the last month or two of school because they had completed the math book. I believe the three of them are all now majoring in engineering and pre-med.