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[quote=Anonymous]Sounds like you have 1st grade maybe? I have to agree the worksheets are just awful. They are not just boring but the directions are often impossible to understand. But I digress. Can you make the work a little more interesting? Like if it's a math worksheet can you say if 10 superheroes were having a meeting and 3 of them had to go off and fight the villains how many are left? Can you try to work with the teacher or SPED to set up a reward system? ARe you allowed to promise him a video or time with a toy if he does his work?

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OP here. I couldn't agree with you more. I did not do a good job of explaining that situation. This child does not refuse in a defiant way at all. It seems clear to me that he needs different work, but that's not something I have any control over. He will sit in front of the worksheet for 30-45 minutes without getting anything done. He will just start imagining and sort of acting out a superhero scene or something. But, if something is interesting to him, like a toy or video that he gets during his break, he will easily focus and retain all of the info. I know that it seems like I am saying he's disobeying, but he's not. It seems like the work is a trigger that makes him shut down. The worksheets for that grade level are incredibly boring and redundant, IMO, so maybe that has something to do with it.[/quote][/quote]

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