"But here, he struggles. He has ADHD and an individualized education plan (IEP), which they follow to the letter but not the spirit. It feels like he regularly gets in trouble for ADHD behaviors, and he's even been suspended twice for what they describe as his being loud and disruptive in the classroom. We've spoken to his teachers, the principal, and gotten his IEP changed. None of it seems to help, and he's miserable there."
"The schools are in totally different directions. We can't do the morning bus time, and we'd have to both do school dropoff to make this work (they can easily take the bus home). Right now, only I do dropoff, and my husband doesn't want to because it would be very annoying with his work schedule. He insists that they should both go to the same school because managing separate dropoffs is too much."
An 11-year-old named Sam excels at a strict, high-ranked charter after struggling socially and academically in elementary school and needing noise-cancelling headphones. Her younger brother Bill, who has ADHD and an IEP, is struggling at the same charter and has been suspended twice for behaviors described as loud and disruptive despite formal accommodations. Parents decided to transfer Bill to the regular public school with lower suspension rates. The two schools lie in opposite directions, creating a morning dropoff conflict because only one parent currently handles dropoff and the other refuses to change his work routine.
Read at Slate Magazine
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