see maybe i was just ahead of myself at that age but this would not have taken very long, i would probably have dared a teacher to punish me like this just so i could be smug about it (j/k i was too good of a kid)
That's pretty much exactly what I did. I got 'The assignment' more then any other kid in the class. After a while, I was doing it on purpose because the alternative was to just finish my work early and draw or read the dictionary (or sometimes comic books) until lunch time/the final bell, and this would 'get me in trouble' anyway because I "wasn't doing anything productive." And, when I would point out that I'd finished my work for the day, he'd remind me about homework. I'd demonstrate that I had also finished that, and that I had nothing else to do. His response, invariably, was a rather effete sounding "Oh well" before doling out 'the assignment' again. It made more work for the sub too, because after the first few times, he had to generate new deadenders for me. I ended up getting bumped up to the Academic Excellence program before our real teacher came back, mainly because it gave the Sub some time without me in the classroom a couple days a week.