This seems obvious but no one said it so i will:
Skip ahead some grades? (only for the classes he's bored in).
Eight years old is typically third grade, unless he's already skipped grades, a point at which public school students generally have only one teacher for all their subjects, meaning he probably does not have the option of skipping grades in some classes but not others.
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?