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From what I remember he has quite a split between this 'intellectual' subscales and his 'handmaiden' subscales - so for him, performing above average at school has a super high cost that your daughter doesn't have.
I would encourage him to get as much out of the activities that already interest him - particularly the comic books, legos,minifigs...conventions if they are nearby enough, comic books about the minifigs, blogs about legos and
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As 'average' as his Working Memory is, and his processing speed, he is really going to have the 'straight and narrow path' of doing what he finds internally motivating.

So do your afterschooling with a lego theme, and bribe with Lego-related activities.
such as -
http://www.firstlegoleague.org/

best wishes,
Grinity

I would also be sure to actually sit in on the 'harder' classes and make sure it's worth the effort to work towards getting him into them. Lots of the kids who have parents who post here daydream just as much in the so called 'advanced' classes as they do in the regular classes.