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.
Where I went to school, we started having multiple teachers in first grade, but in a much more limited sense than in Junior High/High school; it was basically one primary teacher, with a small amount of time for up to two other teachers. I'm actually having trouble remembering if which was a daily thing; I know that I actually missed most of third grade science because that class was with a different teacher, and I was doing blind people stuff during that time (somehow I didn't even notice until most of the way through the school year, since I brought home...
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?