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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sounds like military school would make him the most miserable.[/quote]

I think military school would backfire spectacularly with a kid like this. It's probably moot though, because I don't think they would accept a child with failing grades and an autism diagnosis. [/quote]

I have a similar kid who is a freshman (no autism diagnosis but ADHD and very severely inattentive). I toyed with the idea of military school but think he would be convinced we shipped him away because we didn’t love him, not because we were trying to help.

With his psychologist, we’ve come to an understanding that school will never be his thing but he has to get through it.  We don’t expect him to get As and be a superstar, we only expect him to graduate without getting into any trouble.  He’s a good kid and has never had disciplinary problems but it’s still a struggle some days to get him to school.  He does seem to have a better attitude about it now that we’re all clear there is no expectation that he has high grades, only that he graduates.  He currently has an A, a C and mostly Bs, which I’m thrilled with given the circumstances.

We’re also telling him he doesn’t have to go to college and we are not going to pay for it if he’s going to skip classes. We’ve got some time to figure that out.  I am hoping he matured in the next few years but I would also him doing really well in a trade and then owning his own business. [/quote]

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