Well meaning friends about boys
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My oldest nephew the school was trying to send to the drug doctor in first grade because he wouldn't sit still or some nonsense. Yeah he can be a bit careless and hyper, but if you give him something he's interested in his attention span seems infinite. The youngest one starts I think in another year, it will be interesting, because he's going to be bored. He's already reading and spelling at age 4, so "hey kids, here's the letter A" is going to last about 5 seconds with him. I wish I could talk my brother into homeschooling or something else.
I only did well in elementary school because generally I could just quietly be left to my own devices. It gave me patience, I'll give it that. I can sit for hours on end and stare at a wall really well.
Gender segregated classes at the lower levels would go a long way. You know though if the boys ever pulled ahead of the girls at something, the feminists would flip out. Or there would be kids trying to tranny their way into the other one, etc.
I was a similar case as your older nephew. I couldn't sit still in elementary school, and teachers would bring up that I fidgeted a lot to my parents. At some point the school wanted to put me on meds. My parents told them to fuck off. As I grew older and classes began teaching things I didn't already know or couldn't grasp instantly (and was interested in learning) I was fairly calm and attentive.
I am forever thankful that my parents saw sense that I was probably just bored in school and were adamantly against the idea of fucking me up with meds.
This is an indictment of the school system. You were ahead, you could have stayed ahead, but they just let you learn nothing for years.