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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.
Thanks for the response. Unfortunately, he is more than a bit uninspired and argumentative.
He is disruptive, disrespectful, fails to listen to anything we say despite taking away nearly every privilege.

Yesterday is a good example. He was supposed to go to detention after school but he didn't go because he said yesterday was like a weekend because of no school.

He went home and after using up his allotted 30 minutes on the computer became bored and frustrated because he is locked out of the tv.  He decided to unplug most of the tv's in the house from cable boxes, etc. He re-programmed the thermostats in the house. The a/c was on.  He took my medicine for high blood pressure (shocking I know) and hid it. He re-set my ipad after too many failed password entries.  He then made 5 bags of microwave popcorn.

And this was just yesterday.[/quote]

This sounds troubling and I am sorry your family is going through this.   This sounds troubling and I am sorry your family is going through this.   Have you looked into counseling?   And have you spoken to your pediatrician?  (I'm sure you have but just checking – – possibly there is a brain chemistry element to this that could benefit from medical/therapeutic attention.

I don't think boarding school will be an answer unless you were looking at alternative schools for troubled students and most of those are for high school aged students.   There are not that many boarding schools for younger kids, and I believe that if he has negative school reports with a fair amount of discipline on them  you would have trouble  because he would be perceived as a high-risk behavioral problem.

You could look at military school type options, but I am not sure if any start in the younger grades.

I wish you the best of luck and hope that this proves just to be a difficult phase as he is entering adolescence. [/quote]

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