There's hope!

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Janet, he does sound like Joel.
We fought with the school for years; with them wanting to stick him on Ritalin, (he is NOT hyper in any way) and finally got him tested which proved he had a 152 IQ and was absolutely bored senseless in school. He also had a poor attitude and refused to prove to anyone what he did or did not know. So he wouldn't do homework, tests, or anything that didn't interest him. He's basically a pain in the butt to any teacher who didn't challenge him and earn his respect. He had more than one teacher in tears and one male teacher so mad he was throwing and kicking desks around the room!

He was tested at the beginning of what would have been his 8th grade year (after half a yr of homeschooling) to see if he was keeping up with his peers and ranked at a 12th grade level in all but history, which he was at the 8th grade level in. After that, they just accepted that he would do better being homeschooled and I swear we heard their sigh of relief when we kept him out of school.