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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thank you (almost) everyone for your helpful replies.

18:00, thank you for calling me a twit. It is appreciated [sarcasm]. I KNOW that I am being inflexible, but I am having a hard time with my son being so stubborn about his refusal in having a planner or any help with ensuring that his schoolwork is completed and on time.

My DH has agreed that we need to try again with the planner. We are going to talk about it with our son again and I'm going to use some of the suggestions in this chat.

The school does have a resource class, and we may sign him up for that (he would have to miss one of his regular classes, not the electives). He may have an easier time listening to someone who is not his parent(s).

This child does not have a focus problem. We have been watching for ADHD since he was young because my DH has it, and one of our younger kids has the inattentive type of ADHD. These two kids are nothing alike and their ADHD does not manifest in the same way AT ALL. For instance, our other child is incredibly organized, but we do need to repeatedly tell her to focus and time their homework; otherwise, they would spend 2 hours doing something that should take 15 minutes. For our son, he's so focused it would only take 5 minutes to do the same work. It would just be sloppy, but it would be done.

I'm also going to talk to the pediatrician about the Executive Function skills. Hopefully they will have some referrals for us.

Thanks again. I'm going to share this chat with my DH. Although he and his brother (and a bunch of our friends) have ADHD, it's good to hear what has worked for other people. Maybe some of those will work for us too. 
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