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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a kid like this a year or so older. Bottom line is it sounds like you'd likely get an ADHD diagnosis if you pursue it. But immature organizational skills are 100% normal for boys. These days especially, so much of the school day is organization and processes. This paper goes here, the worksheet from yesterday goes in the green box, this cover page goes in your take home folder, click submit in google classroom, remember to bring your chromebook home to charge, etc. I'd challenge many adults to make it through the day with this sort of cognitive load. It's just really hard for elementary school kids. [/quote]

I have a 3rd grader who struggles sometimes and YES to the idea that what is asked of them would be hard for a lot of adults. I struggle to keep track of it all as the parent sometimes, and I don't have ADHD and have pretty strong executive functioning skills. We do stuff at home like create a schedule of what different stuff is needed different days (sneakers for PE days, instrument for music days, swim stuff for swim days, certain necessities for after school clubs or classroom projects) and even keeping that schedule up to date is challenging because my kid has so many different teachers and they all communicate different ways. There is an expectation that they can tell the kids something at 10am during one class, and they will retain that information in their heads (they won't be instructed to write it down in a take-home notebook, which would actually be a useful skill to teach them, nor given a physical reminder) through the rest of the school day AND after school activities, relay it to us, and then follow those instructions exactly. That's absurd. I'm in my 40s and oversee a team of 10 people and if that was how I was provided information, I would 100% forget it.[/quote]

This is so true. It's much worse in middle school. I see all the things my daughter is trying to track from several classes, several teachers, and a Chromebook system and I think this is about like an adult load of tracking to do at a job. It's stressful and stupid to ask this of children without a lot of guidance.

That said - the ADHD diagnosis could help OP by drawing attention to her son's needs and forcing the teachers to help him organize not just point out that it isn't happening. [/quote]

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