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<blockquote data-quote="Marcie Mac" data-source="post: 323777" data-attributes="member: 47"><p>I can only commeriserate. Danny never cared for school, and when he hit 9th grade (he managed to go to 3 weeks of actual 9th grade) and started getting into trouble, my mission was to get him to graduate. We did regular school,alternative school, independent study where he would go to class 3 days a week (I actually sat in the desk next to him all the time he was there), day treatment, home study, then the school district sent a teacher to our house every day, he attended school when in juvy, and when in the Residential Treatment Center (RTC), and when in Boot Camp. At 18 I gave it up.</p><p> </p><p>After finding out you can't even get a job at Baskin Robbins without a diploma, he decided on his own to take his GED. I can only believe some weird kinda osmosis thing was going on during the short stints of learning cause he aced the GED test on the first try and didnt even study. From day one when he was younger, he refused to do homework of any kind and it was a battle daily, but come test time, he would flip thru the books for a few hours, and pass the tests.</p><p> </p><p>Would I go thru all that stuff again - I honestly don't know but would lean towards probably yes. He retained more than I thought he would. His IQ tested out at 145. School was never a challange for him - he just hated it. I have watched him rebuild a car engine with info from the internet, change the schematics on its computer so it would be a stick shift instead of an automatic. I thought ah ha, something he likes to do, I will send him to school, but once he conquored it, had n0 desire to ever do it again. He just built a super computer for himself, using parts from broken ones - never ever has taken a computer class - learned how to do it via the internet. He fixes his friends computers, builds them new ones from scratch, but not interested in the least in going to school. He has tiled the house, laid wood floors - rennovated one of our bathrooms - but Contractor's School, forget it.</p><p> </p><p>Marcie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marcie Mac, post: 323777, member: 47"] I can only commeriserate. Danny never cared for school, and when he hit 9th grade (he managed to go to 3 weeks of actual 9th grade) and started getting into trouble, my mission was to get him to graduate. We did regular school,alternative school, independent study where he would go to class 3 days a week (I actually sat in the desk next to him all the time he was there), day treatment, home study, then the school district sent a teacher to our house every day, he attended school when in juvy, and when in the Residential Treatment Center (RTC), and when in Boot Camp. At 18 I gave it up. After finding out you can't even get a job at Baskin Robbins without a diploma, he decided on his own to take his GED. I can only believe some weird kinda osmosis thing was going on during the short stints of learning cause he aced the GED test on the first try and didnt even study. From day one when he was younger, he refused to do homework of any kind and it was a battle daily, but come test time, he would flip thru the books for a few hours, and pass the tests. Would I go thru all that stuff again - I honestly don't know but would lean towards probably yes. He retained more than I thought he would. His IQ tested out at 145. School was never a challange for him - he just hated it. I have watched him rebuild a car engine with info from the internet, change the schematics on its computer so it would be a stick shift instead of an automatic. I thought ah ha, something he likes to do, I will send him to school, but once he conquored it, had n0 desire to ever do it again. He just built a super computer for himself, using parts from broken ones - never ever has taken a computer class - learned how to do it via the internet. He fixes his friends computers, builds them new ones from scratch, but not interested in the least in going to school. He has tiled the house, laid wood floors - rennovated one of our bathrooms - but Contractor's School, forget it. Marcie [/QUOTE]
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