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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 561445" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>I'm sorry you are in this situation. It really is taxing. And unfortunately it can be very difficult to solve. We never could.</p><p></p><p>We could make our difficult child to go to school, even in that age though he was over 6 foot tall and in top shape. But he did get into car (and out of it) when we demanded. But that didn't help much. He has never been one for direct confrontations, but more a sneaky, passive-aggressive b*****d. So we got him to school, we got him go into the school, and when we escorted him, we got him to go to the class. But he simply didn't stay there. They couldn't handcuff him to his desk (and I suspect that would just made him expert lock picker anyway), he could easily outran his aide and they couldn't lock school doors (and again what I said about lock picking...) So off he was in most days long before the school day was over.</p><p></p><p>His school 'attendance' only got really better when he ended up living 3 hours from his school and having to physically go there about once a month. It was little better when he got from our middle school (grades 7 to 9, ages 13 to 15) to our high school ('grades' (or in fact flexible schedule to do enough courses), 10 to 12, ages 16 to 18-19. There he did attended interesting and difficult to self learn classes without much fuss. And he went to eat at school every day. And because he was in sport program that was even more flexible and usually done in four years and because he did well in courses he studied independently, he was given a lot of leeway. And for him that worked well, but I suspect that it mostly doesn't. </p><p></p><p>With my difficult child problem was social and especially in elementary and middle school severe bullying. It is one of my big regrets that problem was mostly handled as difficult child's stubborn delinquency and him simply being a bad kid.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 561445, member: 14557"] I'm sorry you are in this situation. It really is taxing. And unfortunately it can be very difficult to solve. We never could. We could make our difficult child to go to school, even in that age though he was over 6 foot tall and in top shape. But he did get into car (and out of it) when we demanded. But that didn't help much. He has never been one for direct confrontations, but more a sneaky, passive-aggressive b*****d. So we got him to school, we got him go into the school, and when we escorted him, we got him to go to the class. But he simply didn't stay there. They couldn't handcuff him to his desk (and I suspect that would just made him expert lock picker anyway), he could easily outran his aide and they couldn't lock school doors (and again what I said about lock picking...) So off he was in most days long before the school day was over. His school 'attendance' only got really better when he ended up living 3 hours from his school and having to physically go there about once a month. It was little better when he got from our middle school (grades 7 to 9, ages 13 to 15) to our high school ('grades' (or in fact flexible schedule to do enough courses), 10 to 12, ages 16 to 18-19. There he did attended interesting and difficult to self learn classes without much fuss. And he went to eat at school every day. And because he was in sport program that was even more flexible and usually done in four years and because he did well in courses he studied independently, he was given a lot of leeway. And for him that worked well, but I suspect that it mostly doesn't. With my difficult child problem was social and especially in elementary and middle school severe bullying. It is one of my big regrets that problem was mostly handled as difficult child's stubborn delinquency and him simply being a bad kid. [/QUOTE]
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