OMG... it sounds EXACTLY like my son! Tony can tell you anything about history & geography. He's not ADHD... thats for sure. He sometimes is soooo mellow that I wonder if he's not in la-la land. but he always had problem in school, even though he tested at near genius level. Getting him to do his homework has always been a major fight. As he got older, he'd come home claiming the teacher didn't give homework that night. We'd meet with teachers, and they'd all say the same thing: Tony is a great kid with a lot of potential but they can't reach him - and that Tony needs to study and do homework!

Then we had him tested and it turns out that even though he's near genius smart, he's VERY dyslexic and has severe learning problems. You can talk to him, have him listen or watch movies and documentaries and he'll get it. He can orally give you the information back. Ask him to read test question and write the answers? forget it! Ask him to write an essay or term paper... dear Lord, its scary! Watching him type a paper is almost painful because he can't get the words out. but if I sit at the computer and have him "dictate" what is in his mind, he comes up with brilliant stuff! Once he had a paper, and his title sentence was "He went to school in England to go to school." He didn't see what was wrong with that... as a Junior!

The only problem is that he has used his learning disability as a crutch his whole life. He just slid by with C's. This is now his senior year, and colleges that were interested in him for sports had to turn him away because of his GPA and SAT score. His senior year is the first year where he actually has applied himself and worked with tutors and the learning center in school. And you know what? He is carrying a 3.7 GPA!!! He says that he wishes he figured this out sooner... but he was always worried what teachers and students thought about him leaving the class to take a test in the resource room... or leaving study hall to have it in the resource room. He now knows that there is no shame in asking for help in that manner.

anyhooo... have you had Jaden tested for dyslexia and such? Just because he tested high on mental ability doesn't mean he doesn't have a learning disability. I'm sure that if the tests were around when I was a kid that my school days would have been different. To this day I am petrified of working with numbers... they swarm in front of me and I am forever transposing numbers. Those tests are a godsend for students like my son and your son.