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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Neurodiversity is accommodated, bad behavior typically isn’t [/quote]
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ADHD is pretty well accommodated as long as it doesn't lead to disruptive behavior.  They don't accommodate behavioral issues.  That's just the way it is.  For those you need a specialized school.  [/quote]

Yes, but my 2e kid is a target anytime there's an issue in class.  It's gotten to the point where he only sits by girls to avoid getting sucked into or blamed for drama started by other boys.  We also spend 20 minutes every morning writing a checklist of what has to get turned in before he leaves, and then at the end of the day, I check the online platform to verify that all assignments do at the end of the school day were turned in, and if they weren't, he goes to one of the after school group tutoring sessions to complete the assignment, because they were giving him zeros on assignments he turned in at 8 pm instead of 3 pm.  In his case, the work was often done by 3 pm, but he forgot to submit it.  The slight accommodation they made was that they'd accept work turned in after 3 pm but before the end of the tutoring session.

All that said, we're not leaving. He needs to learn how to manage deadlines.  They are hard on him, but he's in high school now and needs to learn to manage his schedule before he leaves for college.  It feels like they tolerate us because we don't challenge his teachers, and he has high test scores.  We had a 504 plan at his previous school, and we dropped it before applying to the new school.  I told a few teachers about his challenges with focus (mostly daydreaming), organization, and meeting deadlines in his first semester, but it felt like it made things worse for him.  [/quote]

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