Kids with AS and school

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My daughter is 5.5 years old and in kindergarten. She has a little over a month more of school left but she doesn't want to go. She is not really into discussions so the answers that I get are very short. She says it is boring. My husband asked her if she liked being with the other kids and she said no because they are boring. From what I gathered she finds everything about school to be boring. She says just wants to stay home.

My couple of questions are as she grows older will she find school more interestin? Also what do your children with Asperger's Syndrome think of school?

Thanks again.

My 21 year old never enjoyed school . Actually that's a fib, he only enjoyed 2 classes and they weren't until high school, automotive and robotic engineering and even then it was just the hands on stuff he liked. I could only get him there by telling him it was against the law for him to stay home.

My 12 year old enjoys some parts of school, he likes to learn things that interest him (not necessarily what the teachers want him to learn, lol) and he is obsessed with a kid at school who happens to be his friend (yay). However, if he had it his way he would stay home and self learn all he thinks he needs to know.

That was me when I was in school! In my case, the reason I was bored in school was because I already knew all the material they were trying to teach. The only times I wasn't bored were when I had a work at your own place program in first grade, and when grade skip got me to a 10th grade math teacher who allowed me to work on calculus from the text in his office while he taught whatever was being taught in his regular 10th grade math class.

If the same thing is happening to her, skip her ahead until she gets to a grade where the material is mildly challenging, but still achievable, or homeschool her.

The opposite, material the child isn't ready for, can also cause boredom, though. In that case, your spending some time with her getting her skills up to snuff may be worthwhile.

It is also possible that "boring" means something else, like "school is stressful", "kids are being mean to me", "I'm never included in groups on the playground", "I think the teacher hates me"... My 5 yo has a limited range of words to describe how he feels about things. Lately anything he doesn't like is just "lame". Maybe she just doesn't know how to be more specific in describing what is troubling her. Have you talked with her teacher?

my son likes to go go to school but does not like to do the work . Since privately, I would consider it pure hell to go again to school (at least elementary one) and do the work myself, we don't lie to him. It is just the explanation: everyone goes to school, we went, grandparents went so you need to go.