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<blockquote data-quote="Martie" data-source="post: 4432" data-attributes="member: 284"><p>Pico,</p><p></p><p>Thank you for the suggestions. It is not possible to implement them because MrNo will not allow anyone to "fool" him into thinking that school is not school by infusing music.</p><p>Also, psychiatrist put "messing" with his music off-limits as a contigency bec. he thinks it triggered major depression. So no one-not us nor the school manipulates the content of his music--that's between him and his professional teachers. We do, however, control his overall access to some very expensive opportunities.</p><p></p><p>For him music is his passion; school, at the level he is performing, is his responsibility. He is very ODD and spends lots of time "outwtting" behavior management plans. So, no manipulation of school--that's the deal--he gets no help from us on homework--doesn't need it; and if he should start to fail, he won't go to:</p><p></p><p>1. Sleep away music camp for high school students where he is a "special admission as a 7th grader" gor organ workshop and piano pedogogy.</p><p>2. Won't go to Europe in August with his choir.</p><p>3. Won't be going to boarding school bec. we can't trust him to benefit from his educational opportunities 1000 miles from home.</p><p></p><p>I appreciate your suggestions, I really do, but I am responding to let people know that even the "best of ideas"-- Your ideas were implemented as early as third grade when the book he was supposed to read was about Bach. He would play Bach for his classmates but not read the book--can be unacceptable to a certain type of ODD child.</p><p></p><p>So school is school. We only "required" that he pass to have a special music program--his high grades are a bonus we didn't expect. I don't know if I can explain it adequately: It's why Riley won't work for him but the Explosive Child does. Kristine once said I explained how Josh thinks by explaining MrNo, so if anyone tried to "entice" him through music, he would automatically reject it as an invasion of his perogatives as a musician. I know it sounds crazy to say this about a 12 year old but perhaps it will be clearer if I say that</p><p>"Pathetique" was in his repetroire about 4 years ago--after 8 months of piano lessons, so that he has his own ideas-that he doesn't consult about or share with anyone but his music teachers, we must accept.</p><p></p><p>The only academic connection he accepts is he wants to study German to commune with the soul of Bach--I guess Beethoven would be a bonus for him, LOL. So he will study German in high school. Probably do well, if he wants to. Neither his father nor I took German, so he's on his own--as he is for most things he does well.</p><p></p><p>Thanks for the comment.</p><p></p><p>Martie</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Martie, post: 4432, member: 284"] Pico, Thank you for the suggestions. It is not possible to implement them because MrNo will not allow anyone to "fool" him into thinking that school is not school by infusing music. Also, psychiatrist put "messing" with his music off-limits as a contigency bec. he thinks it triggered major depression. So no one-not us nor the school manipulates the content of his music--that's between him and his professional teachers. We do, however, control his overall access to some very expensive opportunities. For him music is his passion; school, at the level he is performing, is his responsibility. He is very ODD and spends lots of time "outwtting" behavior management plans. So, no manipulation of school--that's the deal--he gets no help from us on homework--doesn't need it; and if he should start to fail, he won't go to: 1. Sleep away music camp for high school students where he is a "special admission as a 7th grader" gor organ workshop and piano pedogogy. 2. Won't go to Europe in August with his choir. 3. Won't be going to boarding school bec. we can't trust him to benefit from his educational opportunities 1000 miles from home. I appreciate your suggestions, I really do, but I am responding to let people know that even the "best of ideas"-- Your ideas were implemented as early as third grade when the book he was supposed to read was about Bach. He would play Bach for his classmates but not read the book--can be unacceptable to a certain type of ODD child. So school is school. We only "required" that he pass to have a special music program--his high grades are a bonus we didn't expect. I don't know if I can explain it adequately: It's why Riley won't work for him but the Explosive Child does. Kristine once said I explained how Josh thinks by explaining MrNo, so if anyone tried to "entice" him through music, he would automatically reject it as an invasion of his perogatives as a musician. I know it sounds crazy to say this about a 12 year old but perhaps it will be clearer if I say that "Pathetique" was in his repetroire about 4 years ago--after 8 months of piano lessons, so that he has his own ideas-that he doesn't consult about or share with anyone but his music teachers, we must accept. The only academic connection he accepts is he wants to study German to commune with the soul of Bach--I guess Beethoven would be a bonus for him, LOL. So he will study German in high school. Probably do well, if he wants to. Neither his father nor I took German, so he's on his own--as he is for most things he does well. Thanks for the comment. Martie [/QUOTE]
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