Gifted Issues Discussion homepage Forums Age or Ability Specific Forums Pre-school Boredom = class clown --- solution???

I think part of the problem is that we say bored we mean mentally bored = under challenged. Teachers and perhaps the rest of the world interpret bored to mean under occupied. This can result in more of the underchallenging work. They also more reasonably take it as an accusation that their class and by extension the teacher is boring. Read the linked thread above, it is a useful one.