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<blockquote data-quote="oceans" data-source="post: 37713" data-attributes="member: 2687"><p>Where I live it is the same as others have indicated. Summer school and extented school year are two different things. If a student is failing classes then they can go to summer school to catch up on the core subjects. ESY is different and is through the exceptional children's program. Here summer school is free unless it is a high school level and then it costs quite a lot.</p><p></p><p>My difficult child always got high scores on his end of year testing, but he failed classes in both 7th and 8th grade. They had a meeting at the end of the year to discuss his passing to the next grade or not. They passed him because it seemed clear that he had the knowledge he needed, and the failing was due to him not participating in doing the required work. If they passed him there was no reason for ESY or summer school.</p><p></p><p>In high school it is different. You need to earn credits. They cannot pass you without you earning them no matter how well you do on the EOC's. You can elect to get your diploma through an alternate testing. The GED.</p><p></p><p>My difficult child acted very much like yours in school, and we knew that the behavioral problems would follow him right into summer school or ESY. It would not have helped for him to go.</p><p></p><p>We never knew why his behavior was so out of control, or why the work was not being done until recently. What led us to the answer was that as soon as he was put on a mood stabilizer and his mood swings subsided, and he came out of depression, he was able to tell the psychiatrist what the problem was. It turned out that all those years he had racing and opposing thoughts going through his head. He also was having sensory issues and too much information was coming into his brain. He felt that he could not relate to people. Because of these things he learned poor coping skills, and did not act in an appropriate manner to situations facing him. He could not do most of his work, so he just did not bother to even try. He would write nonsense on the work and turn it in, or just would not bother to turn it in at all. </p><p></p><p>Standardized test were the only thing he could do well, and I don't know the reason for this. He passed them every year with extremely high scores. He did get something out of being in the classroom, and he has an extremely high IQ.</p><p></p><p>When the psychiatrist added Zyprexa to the mood stabilizer his thinking problems, sensory and communication issues improved. He is now able to do the work at school, and the behavior problems have subsided.</p><p></p><p>There might be a reason that your son can't do the work, and it might look to everyone else like he won't do the work. It makes the school even less understanding because he is so smart. I hope that in time you can find out the reason, because either the proper medication or interventions can make a difference.</p><p></p><p>I see that yours is already on a mood stabilizer, but there might be something wrong about his medication combination that is making it so he is unable to function well enough to do school. It might be the anxiety part that is causing so much difficulty. I believe that some of my son's behavioral issues came from him having a social anxiety. The AP also seemed to help him with this. My son was 15 before we figured out what was causing his behavioral issues.</p><p></p><p>Are they going to pass him to the next grade? What would he gain by going to school this summer if he is still not going to participate in doing the work?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="oceans, post: 37713, member: 2687"] Where I live it is the same as others have indicated. Summer school and extented school year are two different things. If a student is failing classes then they can go to summer school to catch up on the core subjects. ESY is different and is through the exceptional children's program. Here summer school is free unless it is a high school level and then it costs quite a lot. My difficult child always got high scores on his end of year testing, but he failed classes in both 7th and 8th grade. They had a meeting at the end of the year to discuss his passing to the next grade or not. They passed him because it seemed clear that he had the knowledge he needed, and the failing was due to him not participating in doing the required work. If they passed him there was no reason for ESY or summer school. In high school it is different. You need to earn credits. They cannot pass you without you earning them no matter how well you do on the EOC's. You can elect to get your diploma through an alternate testing. The GED. My difficult child acted very much like yours in school, and we knew that the behavioral problems would follow him right into summer school or ESY. It would not have helped for him to go. We never knew why his behavior was so out of control, or why the work was not being done until recently. What led us to the answer was that as soon as he was put on a mood stabilizer and his mood swings subsided, and he came out of depression, he was able to tell the psychiatrist what the problem was. It turned out that all those years he had racing and opposing thoughts going through his head. He also was having sensory issues and too much information was coming into his brain. He felt that he could not relate to people. Because of these things he learned poor coping skills, and did not act in an appropriate manner to situations facing him. He could not do most of his work, so he just did not bother to even try. He would write nonsense on the work and turn it in, or just would not bother to turn it in at all. Standardized test were the only thing he could do well, and I don't know the reason for this. He passed them every year with extremely high scores. He did get something out of being in the classroom, and he has an extremely high IQ. When the psychiatrist added Zyprexa to the mood stabilizer his thinking problems, sensory and communication issues improved. He is now able to do the work at school, and the behavior problems have subsided. There might be a reason that your son can't do the work, and it might look to everyone else like he won't do the work. It makes the school even less understanding because he is so smart. I hope that in time you can find out the reason, because either the proper medication or interventions can make a difference. I see that yours is already on a mood stabilizer, but there might be something wrong about his medication combination that is making it so he is unable to function well enough to do school. It might be the anxiety part that is causing so much difficulty. I believe that some of my son's behavioral issues came from him having a social anxiety. The AP also seemed to help him with this. My son was 15 before we figured out what was causing his behavioral issues. Are they going to pass him to the next grade? What would he gain by going to school this summer if he is still not going to participate in doing the work? [/QUOTE]
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