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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. Sigh, yes, I know those things are going to be a major risk... I guess I'm hoping maybe his maturity and our own awareness will help, but I know this is a bit of a pipe dream.

Either way, he has pretty much no high school options like his current school, so he will need to move to a somewhat larger and mainstream school in 9th regardless. I worry he won't be ready at all socially or academically if he stays where he is now. His academic progress has pretty much stagnated there, and he's a very smart kid. It is also a very small environment, and he would thrive with opportunities to meet kids and do school-sponsored activities (which the school doesn't offer now).

He's a good kid but needs people to take his mistakes lightly. He's very sensitive to judgment, but instead of changing when he notices people are judging his (sometimes absurd and inappropriate behavior), he can get defensive and go into blame mode. I could see this being a risk in either situation, although he and we have also done a lot of work on coping skills over the past few years. On the other hand, he is also feeling like it's unfair that he can't be in a more maintenance environment because he sees neighborhood kids he knows going to bigger schools with more science and math and music and sports options, and I could see his getting angrier from that, too.[/quote]

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