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To: combjelly who wrote (281136)	3/22/2006 5:22:25 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572946

"What researchers are finding now is that boys act up not necessarily because they are bored but because of the way they are hard wired....." That's true. But boredom makes it worse. Boredom has been a big factor with our kids, which is why we keep cycling around homeschooling. Yes, but I suspect your kids are above average in intelligence.........that creates a special kind of boredom where the work just isn't stimulating enough. I was talking about boys who have a need from time to be physical. Without that, they have difficulty concentrating and give the impression of being bored. Its those boys who are usually the ones diagnosed ADD or ADHD. We did have our youngest in a really fine private school, but they are totally oriented around the arts. And he is very much a math and science wonk. But in the past few years, Texas has put together a good program that allows for distance learning. So we can order materials and he gets actual credit like he was going to school. I hope you find ways to stimulate his social side. We tend to isolate "the math and science wonks" and that leads to their social isolation as adults. In addition, there are several universities that take kids after their sophomore if they qualify and the state picks up tuition and fees. So that is the direction we are heading. We figure by the time he is 15 he can have enough high school credits to qualify. His SAT scores are almost good enough as it is. Needs more work on his vocabulary. Here there is a program called Running Start where kids who have the grades and credits can take some college courses along with their high school courses. Do they have a program like that in TX? If they do, that would allow him to take some courses that are challenging, get a head start on his college degree and still allow him to mature socially with his peers. Just a thought.