polarbear, it is difficult to explain a complex child or situation in a short paragraph.

I did have a conference with all of his teachers and the school counselor when these issues arose, but I got the feeling that, as his mom, my information about my DS was not to be believed. I was right because the school did absolutely nothing. I knew then that we had to get a counselor who specializes in gifted issues to back us up and be our advocate. She found out about the visual-spatial style as a possible cause for his failing grades. The visual spatial style and the failing grades are compounded by his emotional issues brought on by a cancer scare, death of his dog and the death of his grandfather in the span of 1 month. We are tackling the VS learning style first in order to give him skills to overcome the failing grades.