Onthegomom,
That could be verbatim a conversation I have had once or twice with my fourth grader. He was grade skipped in first but is still ahead. He rarely puts in effort at school unless he is really excited about the topic. He often says it is boring and he hates group work because he doesn't like to have to wait for his group to catch up. When I ask him if he wants harder work he says yes but balks at extra work. Sometimes he says school is too much work but on further questioning it seems like he means busy work and not too much hard work. It is so frustrating. It is like having a brand new corvette in the yard the it is only driven at 20 miles an hour and I am dying to take it out and REALLY drive because I know what it can do..but alas...it is not my corvette but my son's.
