Now if it were me, I wouldn't want my child given the label of Behavior Disordered or Emotionally Handicapped (unless he truly has some sort of serious mental illness, then it wouldn't bother me)...if he is just acting out because school makes him miserable then I really wouldn't want that label.
I can tell you this is exactly what happened with my son. The school psychologist claimed my son made "great" eye contact and spoke openly with him the entire time he saw him, so there was no way he was on the autism spectrum, and he wanted to label him "Emotionally Disturbed". Kids who are labeled ED who don't make rapid progress in the classroom (in our area) are typically shunted off into a special classroom full of kids with the ED label... and that is the LAST place you want to place a sensitive and/or gifted kid, let me tell you!!!
We tabled that ARD meeting with the quickness and ended up changing schools after we got the neuropsych's eval (PDD-NOS, shocking!)
