<p>erlinda- you are a wealth of knowledge and experience....and you understand about the sense of failure, and why the sport is even more important to a kid like this. Reading and writing are his greatest areas of need. He made great progress at school the past 2 years with something called Read 180. He is supposedly reading at grade level now, but he is still a very slow reader.Read 180 combines computer lessons with high interest reading and small group direct instruction with a reading teacher. But he recently maxed out of that program. You make an excellent point though about the importance of keeping a focus on his reading skills. I will investigate the links, thx!</p>
<p>hmm, not sure how the withdrawing/re-enrolling thing would work in our case..in the case mentioned above, sounded like the school was more supportive than ours...</p>
<p>I wish I felt more optimistic about negotiating with the school district..I actually had started feeling that out and didn't feel like I was getting much give and take..and I'm kind of at the point in my life where I'm a little tired of swimming upstream..I have fought too many battles with the school districts over the years</p>
<p>Today my son and I had a meeting with the director of Futures/Halstrom. It is almost like homeschooling, but more like what I'd call teacher-directed independent study. They provide curriculum, teachers and materials. Basically he meets with a teacher in each subject for 45 minutes and then completes about 5 hours of work. He goes at his own pace. We think it could work. There is a lot of flexibility in terms of schedule and what classes he takes. He can even get credit for working, and he can use his sport for PE or an elective. It did appear to be very book/pencil/paper oriented though...</p>
<p>We also took a peek and picked up literature at Fusion Learning Center..that has a few more bells and whistles, and more of a direct focus on learning differences, but also a higher price tag. This is also one on one teaching, but less independent than Futures. Can't meet with director there for another 2 weeks and don't even know if they have an opening.</p>
<p>My s is just so happy and relieved that it looks like we can work things out. He is very motivated to make it work.</p>