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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 257007" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>That's really positive, considering how things could have gone.</p><p></p><p>A thought on school - is there another route he can take, to get an education? Here in Australia we have colleges of further eduction where adults can go to fill in gaps of their education as well as kids, to get education in a trade. Ours are called TAFE - colleges of Technical And Further Education. I've just been talking to them today about difficult child 3's options (as well as difficult child 1's). We have the option of pulling difficult child 3 out of school, enrollinghim in a fairly simple practical course in how to work in a store, how to manage the basic tasks needed etc, and from there, they would consider him to have finally got enough education to then ewnrol in further courses more specifric to his e (IT, in his case). Because TAFE is aimed at adults returning to education, it is more uni-like in how they treat the students, and the support is fantastic. The worst support is in secondary school, TAFE & uni are brilliant by comparison. Also, after a certain level of coursework has been achieved at TAFE, a student can then bypass usual uni entrance requirements and get into a uni course in the same field, often with advanced standing (ie skipping the first year or so of the uni course).</p><p></p><p>If a kid is struggling in school for whatever reason, this for us is an alternative direction we can take. And often once they are involved in something that is more in their area of interest, as well as in an environment where they are treated as adults (even if they don't deserve it) they often do better.</p><p></p><p>Do you have anything like this? For us, this can start at 15.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 257007, member: 1991"] That's really positive, considering how things could have gone. A thought on school - is there another route he can take, to get an education? Here in Australia we have colleges of further eduction where adults can go to fill in gaps of their education as well as kids, to get education in a trade. Ours are called TAFE - colleges of Technical And Further Education. I've just been talking to them today about difficult child 3's options (as well as difficult child 1's). We have the option of pulling difficult child 3 out of school, enrollinghim in a fairly simple practical course in how to work in a store, how to manage the basic tasks needed etc, and from there, they would consider him to have finally got enough education to then ewnrol in further courses more specifric to his e (IT, in his case). Because TAFE is aimed at adults returning to education, it is more uni-like in how they treat the students, and the support is fantastic. The worst support is in secondary school, TAFE & uni are brilliant by comparison. Also, after a certain level of coursework has been achieved at TAFE, a student can then bypass usual uni entrance requirements and get into a uni course in the same field, often with advanced standing (ie skipping the first year or so of the uni course). If a kid is struggling in school for whatever reason, this for us is an alternative direction we can take. And often once they are involved in something that is more in their area of interest, as well as in an environment where they are treated as adults (even if they don't deserve it) they often do better. Do you have anything like this? For us, this can start at 15. Marg [/QUOTE]
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