Sounds like you have a great relationship with the school. Maybe you can lead in with: "In the past DS has felt honored and developed leadership skills and great self esteem by helping out other students in the class. We feel, though, that this leadership postion has developed in a way that has begun to infringe on his own learning needs a little bit. He has expressed discomfort lately and would like to make a change........
This sounds like what I ought to do, Neato, maybe shortly before school begins, although we're still exploring the homeschooling possibility. I do need to communicate better with the teachers that the "leadership" that DS demonstrated needs to revert to being a student.
