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Oh no, isn't there another medication that will work for your son? I don't know much about ADHD, but thought they had ways to help children cope or something..

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You know, my nephew has ADHD, and it was not easy for him, and his mom had a lot of problems with him, but he graduate from Collins College at Cal Poly Pomona, and let me tell you, that school isn't that easy to get through, you have to work. He did it. He got his degree in hotel management. You just have to really work with him. No one said that dealing with ADHD would be easy. Ever since I was in middle school, I had Bipolar Type II-Manic Depressive Disorder (the low end of the spectrum), but I had a hard to time as well with school and having to battle my ever changing emotions. When I got angry, I got angry, when I was depressed, I was really depressed, and when I was happy, I was super happy, but I tried to hide it and I try to keep it under control, and that wasn't good either. Anti-depressants alone, didn't work for me. Also, what I have is very common. A lot of people have the same condition that I have and don't even know it, or they think that it is just depression, or that it is something else altogether. It can be very tough to diagnose. I didn't get diagnosed until I was an adult.

I think it's better for your son to get out of that school as soon as possible since they are not teaching him anything much, except sending him home every few days. That's a hinderance to his learning ability which is not good It's best that u transfer him out ofthe school completely because u wont know what they are going to do to him again even with highly trained staff

This is absolutely terrible. I don't know what should be done for your son. My daughter goes to school with a little boy that lives up the street from us that also has ADHD, his father has pulled him out of school for a few weeks due to his behavior. That said, I think that there needs to be more people in this world that are able to work with all of the special needs that children may have. I notice in our area that there aren't enough teachers that are trained to deal with children that have special needs.

sorry for your son jugs... i do feel how you feel.. but i dont have any idea what adhd means... how's that?

I would be getting very irritated with the school. Is there some other medication for him to take? I would sit down with the school and see if they can get a person to help do 1 on 1 with him. Concidering you say they are trained in handling children with adhd. I would look into it further. I wouldnt reccomend changing schools because that may be too much for your son. It may make him act out a bit more. It's just a thought. I hope you can get this all figured out for your sons sake.

Hi jugsjugs. My middle daughter (now an adult) has ADHD and she was on one medication that seemed to work well for a while but then stopped. Her doctor switched her to something else that was just as effective as the first medication had been. If your son's medication is no longer helping him you should talk to his doctor about it because there are several on the market.

My grandson is eight years old and had a bad start to his year. With acting out and falling behind the school called a meeting and they had decided to a overall testing of him and see if he didn't fit for some programs they have. I wonder if your school district doesn't have these as well. They do a test and then the child falls into a category that lets them have access to alot of programs in the community.

That's so troublesome. Why not just send your son to the other school straight? Let those highly trained teachers teach him for good. If there's so much of transfers going on, it's going to put stress on your son, making him feel unwanted, no matter what he goes. U have to think of a best solution for u and him.

I can't believe this situation. I am not trained as a schoolteacher, although I have thousands of hours under my belt teaching swimming lessons to kids of all ability levels (physical and mental disabilities/handicaps/difficulties as well as your average kid) and hundreds of hours coaching sports and babysitting. I have had a lot of experience with children with ADHD and autism spectrum disorders, as parents saw how I could get their children to cooperate during swim lessons and asked if I could babysit as well. In my experience, training doesn't do much good if you don't have the natural inborn talent and the patience. One boy I babysit with Aspberger's Syndrome is 11 and over the past year since he was diagnosed he has been getting worse instead of better. When I started babysitting him years ago you would have called him "normal" but now he acts out and throws temper tantrums a 2 year old would envy. Well, he does for his parents and at school (I've seen the reports) but after two or three for me, he does not do it in my presence. I've seen his school "coping plan" where all these steps are outlined, but he is a smart kid, and the more they tell him through their actions that something is "wrong" with him, the more he sees that as an excuse to behave how he likes. I have had conversations with him after his outbursts about how his diagnosis does not give him free rein to act like a small child; in fact it gives him a greater task and responsibility to master his emotions. Now, when his voice starts to rise, I look him in the eye and say "I'm not dealing with this behaviour. You are capable of controlling yourself and if you need to get away from your brothers to do so, you'd better do it." I do not have ANY behavioural problems with him, even though his parents and school are at their wits' end. It seems like you can handle your son just fine; his "trained" teachers are obviously in the wrong job.

try enrolling him in a Montessori School, I'm a teacher and in my school the University of San Carlos Montessori Academy, children with ADHD or any other Special needs are addressed individually, since the TLP(teaching learning process) is individualized the child's needs are answered and they are never left out.