"But MOOOOOOM! I already spent all day in school and you want me to do more work. It's NOT FAIR!!!", and so on until I begin plucking the hairs out of my head one by one, because that's nowhere near as painful as doing additional homework....
In the end, our 'likes plenty of time to do nothing' kid got a gradeskip because he 'just didn't think it was fair' to do one drop of work more than the other kids were doing.
If the child isn't willing to afterschool, and isn't well behaved enough for homeschool, and these attitude problems can't be resolved, then ((cue scary music)) a grade skip is about the only answer. We had to go to a private school for 2 years to get teh grade skip, and then we returned to public with the proviso that 'if mom doesn't see you working hard, then you have to do double what the teachers expect, or back to private school. It did work.
Catching on to what is going on at age 7 is really good.
Best Wishes,
Grinity
