Ultramarina and Tillamook,
Your stories resemble my DD11's. He came from a magnet all gifted elementary school where the work was challenging as were his peers. He's now at the local high-scoring middle school in the "honors" track with accelerated math but the work is not hard (the bar to get into this honors track is low but it's the only honors track). There's just a great deal of it. The work does not seem deep at all, it's just a challenge for him to manage six periods of tests, projects, homework, online extra stuff, all around busywork, etc. He's had all A's all year but has been slipping due to lack of focus. He knows all the content backwards and forwards but the teachers seem to load on the busywork. He's come really far with regard to EF but it seems that lately, he just wants a break from the volume of work and he slips.
Middle school was a whole new thing for him and he is slowly navigating the social aspects.
Hope things are going well for you!
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