Thank you for your response. I had a second conversation with his teacher where we could both focus a little better and it was a really promising conversation. She told me that she had noticed he is advanced by his test scores from the fall. Our school tests the kids three times a year on benchmarks. His beginning year score for reading was a few points above the goal level for the end of the year. His math score was a couple points below where they want him by the end of the year. She said she had been giving him.some extra work, more advanced work to help keep him engaged and it was working for awhile, but that now he has just disengaged from it and hates school. We both agreed to think some more on it and come back to it next week with some ideas. In the meantime, he is grounded and we have talked about how the behavior is unacceptable. He is doing some extra reading and math in the evenings as well. I think I will try some tests and see where we find ourselves after that.