Kind of puts things in perspective, doesn't it?
Actually, that sounds an awful lot like my son :-) His handwriting is terrible, he often messes with adults just for fun, builds complicated things out of junk and does the bare minimum to get by in anything that is deemed "below" him.
That being said, this was same evil teacher who wanted him to repeat kindergarten because he had yet to color a picture and stay in the lines. Nevermind he was reading 4 years above grade level and doing math at least 2 years above. That was irrelevant. Coloring is important.
I digress... back to your regularly scheduled thread on analogies.
