No, HK, you are realistic - I get that. I am too. I guess what I (we) really have to figure out is whether all that work and the related stress is better than what is going on now.
He will do the work assigned to him but he has limitations (an ADHD diagnosis) and knows them - if he is not too overwhelmed, he will say, I just cannot do that today. The school work, homework and school work that becomes home work is less intellectually rigorous (ie more procedural and tedious)and takes more time than necessary it would be hard to get work at his level in there too. His school gets out at 3:30 and by the time he gets home and a snack its 4:30. Also, this is the first year that he only has one 15 min. recess so he needs to get some exercise too. So, I guess my response is likely no to the afterschooling.
I am kind of feeling like the best way to proceed now is to take Val's advice and talk to the teacher - see what we can work out to try to make it a little better for him, invoke his 504 less problems to show mastery, then ask her to assign the "homework" that we come up with. I did do this with the IXL 40 minute weekly requirement - I asked if he could do Khan at his level as opposed to IXL at 5th grade and she wrote something about at grade level standards practice but if we felt like he did not have any gaps to go ahead.
I would not start the homeschool plan anyway until the 2nd week of November because my "teacher" is traveling for most of October and early November.
