About life at Camp Schteveo...

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As many of you know, I'm helping home school my 11 y/o g'son. Since we started in Sept, I've discovered some interesting things about this boy, and he had a day long series of tests yesterday with professional shrinks and brain tweakers.
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First, he has a memory problem, that he's evidently inherited from his mother and paternal grandfather. He simply cannot retain facts and figures. He still, at almost 12, counts on his fingers. Those rote skills we take for granted, he doesn't have. He can, however, remember and recall anything tied to a visual or aural event. He can recite lines from songs, TV shows, movies etc, after just 1 time of seeing it.

He has a lag in his reaction time. He can write down an answer quicker than he can verbalize it. He does not, and cannot run. He lopes, trots or jogs, but RUN, is not in his brain to be sent south.

However, he is far ahead of most people in his facial and body acuity skills. He reads body language very well in other words. He is above average in verbal usage for his age group. And he sees systems and patterns and connections if he has the time to look at the entire set of items or parameters. He'd be a good detective or interrogator I suspect.

He's a whiz at art and is a fair cook already. And that's the layout, after my 5 months. Here's what we can't figure out,
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WHY, oh WHY, didn't the idiots in the schools pick up on some of this? If not the teachers, the testers? He was tested periodically because he is ADHD. Or more to the point. Is it, that they are SO worried about these children's self-esteem, that they'd rather ruin their lives at 18 when they graduates HS ignorant, than tell them, and the parents, that the child has a Life Long disability, at 8 or 10 when they get tested?
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I think it's the latter.
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