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[quote=Anonymous]OP- my 7th grade boy has executive functioning issues and ADHD. We recently started a low dose medication (a very hard and necessary decision for my DS and our family life) which is helping but does have some side effects.

I have found for my bright son with ADHD and executive functioning impairments that a structured environment works best.

In our case DS became increasingly anxious and defiant when a school mixes up routine, have a curriculum reliant on huge self-driven projects that are of low interest, and have inconsistent amounts of homework each night (e.g. one night it's none, the next night it's three becasue the core teachers don't communicate well)

Our school (a different state) has after school tutorials so that students who need some additional support with the day's instruction can get help in a particular class. Additionally, my DS has an advisor who helps him write out a homework list and after school tutorial priority every day until he "graduates" from needing the support. He also has a full year of study hall (most students have 1 semester) and he uses it to finish his math homework (he's more focused and in the flow to do math when he's at school vs. home, where it was becoming a major battleground).

These are the kinds of things that I would look for. OP, I don't know if you have gone the medication route (and maybe it's not entirely necessary for your DS, every child is different), but we discovered very quickly that it's almost impossible to survive in a rigorous private MS environment if a child cannot focus during the day. DS is a very, very smart boy and he simply could not manage to teach himself every new concept that he missed at school and still manage the homework load. [/quote]

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