More of the same homework seems to be a common "solution" employed by teachers of mainstream classes with gifted students. Differentiation and adaptation of the curriculum seem to be foreign concepts. As for the struggle getting DS to complete handwriting exercises and other pointless (his word) tasks, well that's for another day. Of course I try to explain the relevance of such work to his future plans, but although he understands my argument, at age 7 he finds it difficult to accept!
As my DS commented, "Homework is such a waste of time that I could be spending actually LEARNING something"
