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<blockquote> <p>I had to call the college myself and tell them to send application information to my son's school, because they had never participated before. >></p> </blockquote>
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<p>Your son's experience probably paved the way for other students with similar needs. I know it was easier to advocate for my S to go to the high school for Physics because some 8th graders had gone for 9th grade math before. By taking daytime college classes, my S has probably set a precedent, not just vis-a-vis the school bureaucracy but also the students themselves. They'll know it can be done. The hard part was not convincing the school; it was reconciling two very disparate schedules, one rotating, the other not, and planning courses in the absence of available catalogs for the next year. I, too, am looking forward to my S being in college and not having to work out a feasible schedule for him.<br>
I'm not joking about the taxi. When discussing my S's case, one teacher told me about a blind student who had not gotten along with a particular teacher; the school paid for a taxi to take him to a nearby school district where there was a teacher with whom he got along better.</p>