our h.s. has a painfully early start time; ds, sophomore, missed about 40 days last year, a lot of that early morning classes, due to illness and fatigue (chronic, related to one of his diagnoses).
He has already missed a large amount of class time this year also, esp. in the morning - school has suggested moving his first two periods to 'home bound' services.
Sort of depressing sounding moniker "home bound"... but he can still take his most interesting and hardest classes at the school, and hopefully miss far fewer of the other classes. There will still be times he will just be sick, period, early or later in the day, but wondering if this could help.
I am getting the ball in motion with the doctor - -just wondering if anyone has used such a service and how it worked out..? pitfalls?
also wondering whether to request this be for the full year, or something shorter. It is really up to the dr.
ds is not that interested, frankly, he thinks it would be just as good if not better to miss the classes if necessary, and make up the work on his own (he says he learns better on his own). He may be imagining a very slow movement through the material, which I suppose is a concern.
Any thoughts appreciated, especially if you've dealt with this for one of your children.
thanks.
