Honestly, my "strategy" was "make hilarious amounts of trouble, eventually get sent to a private school where I was actually challenged."
Between the lack of challenge and the lack of socialization (I do hope he has friends, but if he doesn't he's going to have social problems for a long time (generalizing from my one example)), moving to a private school was the best thing that happened to me.
This seems like a story of many gifted children. I was a teacher at a school for gifted children, and a frequent story of how the parents discovered their children were gifted was something like this:
"The child was originally in a school for muggles which was so boring the child couldn't focus on lessons, and started making trouble. Teachers suspected the child cannot pay attention because of mental retardation (!!!) and sent the child to a psychologist. The psychologist gave the child an IQ test, concluded that it's actually Mensa-level smart, and to...
Although my 8-year-old son likes his teacher, he is frequently bored at school. He attends a high quality suburban public school in the United States. He has a lot of traits in common with LessWrong readers, and we would like advice for what he can do to counter his boredom. Many of you must have found grade school more or less tedious. What were your coping strategies?