My 10 year-old boy has just gone back to school and suddenly he's withdrawn, miserable and uncommunicative. Outside school he's sociable, enthusiastic and happy but the minute school starts again it's as if all the light goes out of his face and I am desperate to know what to do. He's been to self-esteem workshops run by the school all last term which seemed to help a bit. He's had difficulty in making friends (at school, not outside). His mind works a bit differently to most - remarks that seem odd at first turn out to come from a completely different (and often more interesting) approach. His school work is fine, although he complains that it's hard and boring. The problem seems to have slowly got worse over the past 3 years (he's been at his present school for 1 year). He has seen an educational psychologist, who suggested mild autism, but he exhibits none of these signs outside school so I am reluctant to go down that route. I'm beginning to think that mainstream education is the problem, not him! Where do I go from here?
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BeerTricksPotter ·
07/09/2010 19:20
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