Ds is 14 and has never liked school and has always struggled. At Primary school he always had a IEP or IBP because he would swing between being ok and struggling. Imo his primary school never did as much as they could have done.
When it came to secondary school, I chose not to send him to our local one (that his sisters went to) as although it is a good school imo it was way to focused the bright kids and not much else. Ds would have sunk quickly there. Instead I chose a school with similar results but a more family feel.
Ds took the whole of Yr 7 to settle. He hated it, had no friends and struggled to be organised. I had him assessed for Dyspraxia, and was told he wasn't Dyspraxic but needed help with organisation etc. His school were happy to help with that and have also always given him extra English and Maths tuition.
Fast forward to now. Ds is in Yr 9 and I have just had his Yr 9 Interim report sheet and it is awful. His projected English grade is 2/1 (E,F,G) and his projected Maths grade is 1w, I dont even know what the W means. All of his other grade predictions are similar.
I always knew that this was going to be a problem, but I don't think I expected it to be this big a problem. He still gets extra English and Maths help each week, but clearly it isn't working.
His teachers have said several times, that they know he knows the work and the answers and everything else, but that he just can't seem to get it from his head to paper, or he does but it has so little content in it that it drops his marks right down.
He has picked Psychology, R.E and Food tech as his options and I just can't see that he is going to cope with those, especially not the first 2.
I have emailed school to ask for a meeting, but I am not sure what I want or should expect them to do, or what else I should do. There is no way I can afford a tutor for him.
I feel like I have failed him now.