One thing that sort of 'helped' DS12 in elementary school, was to find out how long the teacher expected the child to work on the homework, and to let DS12 work for exactly that long, and then write a note on the bottom - this is X minutes worth of work.
If your son is in early elementary school, perhaps you can get away with this for one year, while working outside school on his keyboarding and at his readiness level.
On one hand it's great for a child to be motivated to get good grades, but one the other hand, it's not the only thing - if it's worth his while to be in school this year, you may have to reframe it as - you are still learning how to do the things this teacher wants, so these are your grades for now.
((shrugs))
Seems like the Gifted Coordinator and the Person in charge of the IEP should be given a chance to see if they can help out here.
So Sad....
Grinity
