I also have 'learning issues.' When I was 10 years old I was in a very bad car accident that almost took my life. Before the accident I was a stright A student. After the accident my grades dropped down to C's and maybe a B every now and then. When ever my mom tried to help me with writing papers or anything like that I got so embarrassed and I refused just like your son. Or I wouldn't do the work at all. My teachers never called my house to let my parents know what was going on. Even still I don't post alot because I am afraid of making mistakes in gammer, spelling and so on. The last thing I want is for 'strangers' to see how bad my problem can be. My spelling is the worse. I have tried to get better at spelling and every now and then I learn a new word but for the most part I forget the word a few minutes after I tried to remember it. Before my accident my worst class was math, which I kept an A- average. After my accident, I kept a C+ and my worst class became english and reading. Which was my best class before. With me the more my parents tried to help me the more I got mad and would refuse to do the work. At school the teacher would tell us that we had to write a paper and stand up in front of the class and read it out loud. I always stayed home on those days. In class if I would refuse to read out loud it was an automatic fail. No questions about it. At least if I didn't show up I could just hand in the paper.

I have no clue where I'm going with this. Just please try to take it easy on him. I understand now how improtant school and school work really is. Some times school with set up a time for them to have someone tutor them. I had that as well it worked for the short while that they did it. Maybe you can talk to the school and see if they can set something like that up.

Katie