Arttillygirl
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My son is ADHD and 16 and is breaking my heart. I work at a private school SO MY SON could attend since 4th. He's always been a bit of a behavior challenge but not major until the middle of 9th grade. He committed some prank vandalism with some kids, and long story short, hes totally rejected now in his class. He wants to leave and is being treated for depression(about went under over the summer) and now adderall for the adhd which he has tolerated for this week now. This is a new time released one, he couldn't tolerate other stimulants. ANyways. He wants to go to ANY other school. Unfortunately our only public school is horrible and most do all they can to avoid it. We checked out an ADHD private school when his grades dropped to c's. He's mostly been a B average. He wants to try a 2 year program in our area called collegic high school. It's for juniors and seniors who want to graduate with an associate degree. Now granted I know he will be lucky to make C's and my fear is he won't even pass. It's 5 core classes and since he's adhd my school didn't require foriegn language so he'd have to have that as one of the 5. His psychiatrist said he would lean towards not saying No but my husband and I are like "we need to take our heads out of the sand, this is for bright, high achieving kids who want to be in college at 16"... My son doesn't particularly like the idea of working so hard but is wanting so badly to get out of here.
The ADHD school also would require foreign language to graduate but its 15K per year. The charter college school is free-books and all and a laptop for 2 years.
We already have college savings for him so the savings isn't really a necessity but of course would be nice. I just don't know what to think. He takes the accuplacer test and maybe that will answer it for us. He didn't do well at all on the ACT or PSAT but that could also be because he hadn't had some of that info in the fall and his depression.
Any advice from some of you who's kids are like this and made it to college?
If he does try and fail I am afraid he might not return to college when he's ready.
There's an audio engineering program that he would love to get into at a 4 yr university and doing well at this school would cinch it for him but I don't know if he wants it enough for the 30 hours of studying a wk. Also now that you can only drop 5 classes total in your college career, what impact would failing be on his overall college plan?
I don't know if he is even capable of doing it having this learning difference. The school itself said this program was not good for adhd because of the freedom the kids have. I thought about hiring a tutor also throughout.
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The ADHD school also would require foreign language to graduate but its 15K per year. The charter college school is free-books and all and a laptop for 2 years.
We already have college savings for him so the savings isn't really a necessity but of course would be nice. I just don't know what to think. He takes the accuplacer test and maybe that will answer it for us. He didn't do well at all on the ACT or PSAT but that could also be because he hadn't had some of that info in the fall and his depression.
Any advice from some of you who's kids are like this and made it to college?
If he does try and fail I am afraid he might not return to college when he's ready.
There's an audio engineering program that he would love to get into at a 4 yr university and doing well at this school would cinch it for him but I don't know if he wants it enough for the 30 hours of studying a wk. Also now that you can only drop 5 classes total in your college career, what impact would failing be on his overall college plan?
I don't know if he is even capable of doing it having this learning difference. The school itself said this program was not good for adhd because of the freedom the kids have. I thought about hiring a tutor also throughout.
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