Here is a girl who is ready and eager to learn. Isn't that what schools want?
No. Schools want kids who will do what they are told to do and parents who won't ask questions. Particularly questions like that. Anything else would be too much like work.
Sorry you're having difficulties with first grade. We've been lucky with our school and teachers so far, into second grade now, but we do have DS7 do extra things for homework and take them back to school when the homework is pure fluff. If your teacher would not react well to that, you could just do extra pages of something more interesting and NOT take it to school.
I know that doesn't help with being bored in class...we still have that problem anyway.
