Two years ago we sent my son to private school as we felt the local state middle wouldn't meet his needs. He had been seen by the educational psychologist twice at primary, there were some focus issues, 'disruptive' behaviour which was stuff like him wanting to carry a seed around the pupils for them to see, rather than it being passed around from pupil to pupil. Ed psych said he was bright but made some recommendations on how he would learn best (lots of praise, consistency etc). He joined the private senior school in September. They've run some mid-yis tests and he has come out as very bright but meeting year standard for academic subjects. Their opinion is he should be exceeding not meeting. They ran some more tests and they say that he fits the ADHD profile, which is not a surprise to me.
They want him referred to a paediatrician for a confirmed diagnosis. The Head of Learning Development made two comments which have really bothered me and I don't know whether to feed back to the school? The first was that medication may be advisable and that if he didn't take medication we might need to discuss "whether this is the right school for him" the second was that there are more children in the criminal justice system with ADHD and early intervention is key.
My son had detention within a couple of weeks which was for three 'negatives' comprising of a focus issue and two larking about issues. Since then he has not been in trouble. It seems really premature to be talking about exclusion and the criminal justice system and I feel like saying something? Any thoughts???