It is one thing to spank a child for hitting smebody, it is anther to spank them for a discipliary problem that they cannot change so easily and that they more then likely don't understand themselves. If he is testing at a third grade level then of course he is bored in first grade. I still get bored in class and I am in college. When I was in first grade I was given seperate, hands'on projects to do while the other kids caught up on their reading. We were not skipped ahead because we were not socially ready for other classes, just intellectually ready. We were given other projects to work on and sometimes we were taken to the ESL classes to work with kids our age that couldn't speak good English, which is good practice to have them interact wih ngish students rather than always being taught by a teacher. Spanking won't help that he is not challenged in class enough or that he learns differently than others students. It will only tell him that you want him to change something he cannot change by himself and it will frustrate him