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<blockquote data-quote="ROE" data-source="post: 38763" data-attributes="member: 2276"><p>I feel for you, I am in the same boat! Cudos to you for getting your difficult child to attend summer school, mine refuses. I know that if I can't get him to do much during the year he sure is not going to do anything in summer school if he isn't willing. Since summer school starts and ends while I am at work, he'd be on his own to get there and back (have to take the city bus)which I am sure he won't do.</p><p></p><p>He does not have an IEP-stated that if this ever happened he would never go to school again.</p><p></p><p>The school pushes for alternative school from time to time but difficult child refuses that too. He's reasoning for both of the above is that he does not want people treating him differently.</p><p></p><p>I have offered to get him a tutor-nope he can do it on his own (but he's not)</p><p></p><p>He used to have a "guided" study hall. A teacher headed the study hall and was involved in hounding him and helping him get his assignments completed. I think its the only reason he got through middle school. Budget cuts made this program disappear. Now he's in a high school that has block scheduling-longer classes that don't meet everyday. Consequently, he has a 70 minute study hall once a week. I think it really hurts him not to have a study hall every day. </p><p></p><p>I feel like I have tried everything too. I find that if I push too hard I get absolutely nothing. His great escape is sleep.</p><p></p><p>But yet he has dreams of going to college too. He's quite capable of this if he could just get it together. </p><p></p><p>by the way how does your difficult child cope with her Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)? Mine has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) too. For the most part my difficult child's Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is controlled with medication but he does have his quirks. Sometimes they do affect his work. At times he's a perfectionist-particularly with art work. He has a metal's class as an elective. The teacher has commented several times "he's a perfectionist". Sometimes this hurts his grades because if doesn't like the way something looks-he won't finish it. or he'll ask for different materials because something wasn't quite right with what he was given. He's also been known to spend (waste in my opinion)time re-doing things that don't need to be redone. For example, he will spend hours rewriting all of his notes for a class or reorganizing all of his notebooks instead of doing the assignments. He's not like this all of the time. I think the majority of the time his grades suffer because of lack of motivation-which he has admitted himself.</p><p></p><p>Sorry I have no advice. Just sympathy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ROE, post: 38763, member: 2276"] I feel for you, I am in the same boat! Cudos to you for getting your difficult child to attend summer school, mine refuses. I know that if I can't get him to do much during the year he sure is not going to do anything in summer school if he isn't willing. Since summer school starts and ends while I am at work, he'd be on his own to get there and back (have to take the city bus)which I am sure he won't do. He does not have an IEP-stated that if this ever happened he would never go to school again. The school pushes for alternative school from time to time but difficult child refuses that too. He's reasoning for both of the above is that he does not want people treating him differently. I have offered to get him a tutor-nope he can do it on his own (but he's not) He used to have a "guided" study hall. A teacher headed the study hall and was involved in hounding him and helping him get his assignments completed. I think its the only reason he got through middle school. Budget cuts made this program disappear. Now he's in a high school that has block scheduling-longer classes that don't meet everyday. Consequently, he has a 70 minute study hall once a week. I think it really hurts him not to have a study hall every day. I feel like I have tried everything too. I find that if I push too hard I get absolutely nothing. His great escape is sleep. But yet he has dreams of going to college too. He's quite capable of this if he could just get it together. by the way how does your difficult child cope with her Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)? Mine has Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) too. For the most part my difficult child's Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is controlled with medication but he does have his quirks. Sometimes they do affect his work. At times he's a perfectionist-particularly with art work. He has a metal's class as an elective. The teacher has commented several times "he's a perfectionist". Sometimes this hurts his grades because if doesn't like the way something looks-he won't finish it. or he'll ask for different materials because something wasn't quite right with what he was given. He's also been known to spend (waste in my opinion)time re-doing things that don't need to be redone. For example, he will spend hours rewriting all of his notes for a class or reorganizing all of his notebooks instead of doing the assignments. He's not like this all of the time. I think the majority of the time his grades suffer because of lack of motivation-which he has admitted himself. Sorry I have no advice. Just sympathy. [/QUOTE]
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