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<blockquote data-quote="Star*" data-source="post: 161981" data-attributes="member: 4964"><p>Freaky - another Star. lol </p><p></p><p>In our case my son wanted to go to school. He would have been 21 when he graduated hs IF : he could have hung in while hearing comments about having a beard, moustache - grandpa get a diploma and other cutting hs remarks that would have been made. Plus to be 21 and with 15 year old kids - nah. </p><p></p><p>Here the kids have to have Carnegie credits. So many credits are given for each year and you have to have x amount to graduate and get a diploma. </p><p></p><p>He missed so many years being in and out of Residential Treatment Center (RTC)'s that there was no way for him to graduate. He would next year of course be walking and getting cap and gown and diploma. </p><p></p><p>Instead he ended up in jail and is now court ordered to get a GED. No one wanted a "felon" in school. And the district wanted him OUT - but no more than we wanted him OUT. </p><p></p><p>In 3 months of one on one education and assistance from the GED teacher - he's moved up 4 levels in math - a victory I savor. And he's also working on getting a work keys - for employment. A lot of local and state wide businesses are getting a tax break for using work key kids through adult ed. </p><p></p><p>We worked with the Governor's office and got Dude into a therapeutic foster home that is teaching him skills for living on his own, helping him get back and forth to school, and if he gets a job - back and forth to that. He likes the school, it's a smaller place (Adult Ed) and since he was in SPED classes he can't go to the night classes. For him that means catching a bus in the AM and going to "school" where he's going to test out for a GED with their help. I may have missed my last hold out on a dream for a graduation - but I'm tired. I've been fighting the system for him for 14 years plus and finally he just looked at me and said </p><p>"Mom - I want to go to school at Adult Ed, they get me there." and he's around more mature people, there is less peer pressure and there is NO clowning around. So for me - I'd vote YES - give up on 2 more years of public ed IF he could make it in Adult Ed. If not - you really have no choice but to leave him in SPED and hope he hangs in there for graduation at 20 or 21.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Star*, post: 161981, member: 4964"] Freaky - another Star. lol In our case my son wanted to go to school. He would have been 21 when he graduated hs IF : he could have hung in while hearing comments about having a beard, moustache - grandpa get a diploma and other cutting hs remarks that would have been made. Plus to be 21 and with 15 year old kids - nah. Here the kids have to have Carnegie credits. So many credits are given for each year and you have to have x amount to graduate and get a diploma. He missed so many years being in and out of Residential Treatment Center (RTC)'s that there was no way for him to graduate. He would next year of course be walking and getting cap and gown and diploma. Instead he ended up in jail and is now court ordered to get a GED. No one wanted a "felon" in school. And the district wanted him OUT - but no more than we wanted him OUT. In 3 months of one on one education and assistance from the GED teacher - he's moved up 4 levels in math - a victory I savor. And he's also working on getting a work keys - for employment. A lot of local and state wide businesses are getting a tax break for using work key kids through adult ed. We worked with the Governor's office and got Dude into a therapeutic foster home that is teaching him skills for living on his own, helping him get back and forth to school, and if he gets a job - back and forth to that. He likes the school, it's a smaller place (Adult Ed) and since he was in SPED classes he can't go to the night classes. For him that means catching a bus in the AM and going to "school" where he's going to test out for a GED with their help. I may have missed my last hold out on a dream for a graduation - but I'm tired. I've been fighting the system for him for 14 years plus and finally he just looked at me and said "Mom - I want to go to school at Adult Ed, they get me there." and he's around more mature people, there is less peer pressure and there is NO clowning around. So for me - I'd vote YES - give up on 2 more years of public ed IF he could make it in Adult Ed. If not - you really have no choice but to leave him in SPED and hope he hangs in there for graduation at 20 or 21. [/QUOTE]
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