<p>What D’yer says makes a lot of sense.</p>
<p>I think you should look into Cambridge School of Weston.</p>
<p>D’yer, you described my younger self in school almost to a tee. But I differ in that I totally and completely loathed school. Once I got to high school, I only showed up when I had a test or a paper due. This is the only point of yours that I would differ. He may not have quit yet simply because it’s not an option at his age. </p>
<p>The surest way to **** off an uninspired teacher is to ignore him or her and still get the right answer. That can explain the negative comments on the report card. I have run into many an insightful answer on my own son’s papers that have an ugly slash through them simply because they didn’t include the words in the teacher’s manual or some other such nonsense.</p>
<p>Well, I don’t know if he is just a disenchanted but gifted learner and therefor has no need for tests, grades, class participation or whether there is something else going on.</p>
<p>I have a daughter who hates school because it is so fatiguing (muscle-wise and attention-wise). She also scores at the top on those nationally normed tests. </p>
<p>In general, though she can read at a 12th grade level in 4th grade, she has a problem with out-put: all the ways you tell the teacher what you know. She doesn’t like tests, reports, quizzes, worksheets, handouts, or paper of any kind. Ask her something and she knows the answer though.</p>
<p>I think it is very important to figure out why your child hates school. I can’t tell yet whether my D is a BS candidate 4 years from now, but right now I think she has to be somewhere where people understand that she isn’t stubborn, lazy, stupid, etc. Perhaps the “All Kinds of Minds” books would help you, or educational testing.</p>
<p>D’yer, you are SO cool! I second every thing you just wrote.</p>