Austin, thanks for writing.
DS is a "rule follower" at school, so I'd be surprised if he escalated. Were you the type to explain why you left and went home? Or did your Mom/school just decide to try letting you do your thing as an experiment and that worked?
DS isn't the type to tell me what's really wrong in this case, so I'm trying to figure out the cause. Appreciate the insight into your experience.
I could read at a HS level and we were doing "see spot run" and telling time. It was excruciatingly boring. I'd brought in some books from home to read and the teacher took them from me. I was pretty outspoken about it and she said I could not go to recess and had to sit and think about it. So I just left when she took the class out of the room. IIRC I had some books at home I could read so I left. It was a matter of choosing what I wanted to do - which was read.
