Our DS is 13 and has gone to public school, private school and homeschool. This past school year, he was in what we thought was a great magnet school. He was underachieving due to some recent emotional issues ( deaths in the family and a teacher at that school bullying him). We tried to work with the school to help him overcome his issues, but they refused to help in any way. Oh wait....I take that back...one of his insightful teachers did offer a solution. She said he needed to work harder.
The tipping point was when the counselor said that the only way the school could "force" their teachers to differentiate for our DS was to get him labeled with a learning disability/504 designation. Then the teachers would have to make accommodations. The counselor even said that the IEP's were not worth the paper they were written on. Homeschool.
