Hi all, it has been a long time since I have been here to NT and I think this may be the first time to this particular forum. Anyway, I do know some here at NT and that is why I have decided to post this here as I need some of their wise advise and who ever else has any input.

I have a 15, well 16 in August yr old son who is diagnosed as Bipolar with severe anxiety and ADD not to mention anger issues. He is having a terrible time with school. Getting pretty much all Es. He has a tendency to wait until around grade time and when push comes to shove then clamps down on his work, if he doesn't like a teacher or thinks a teacher doesn't like him he won't do his work, if he doesn't feel good he puts his head down and sleeps, he vomits almost every morning before school and most days during school due I believe in large part to his anxiety. His teachers all know he is intelligent and when he likes them they like him greatly. Everybody in the school knows him for some reason or another and he has a great amount of friends and is hugely liked, feared also he will not tolerate a bully. He is having to go to summer school because he has already gotten behind by two classes, failing last year, and needs to make them up in order to go to Skills Center in fall to take a couple of hours of Production Development which I think will be wonderful for him and he is looking forward to. He had a lot of people pull a lot of strings for him to be able to take this class because he really "legally" does not qualify for it. Grades are too bad. So yesterday I finally got final grades and he has 4 Es, 2 Cs and an S.

I know this is alot to tell you but this is the whole thing, I am thinking of taking him out of mainstream and letting him go to adult ed. Not so much for the GED but his diploma. When I did it, I am also Bipolar but type 2, I took the GED but scored so high in the nation that I got enough credits on it plus a couple class credits that I earned my diploma and my GED. Now I know things have changed and you can't do it that way but there is a way it can be done. Now his father and his grandmother, where he stays because it is too chaotic here, say that there is no reason he should not be able to finish high school, it is not that hard. His grandmother says if he does not stay in high school he can't stay there. This summer school thing started today. He had a nervous breakdown at school and already has had to drop one of the classes. So now he is going to be even further behind. I am at a loss. He is getting further behind. Getting sicker. We just had an upper GI done and he has the beginnings of an ulcer, a small lesion on his duodenum and on the upper part of upper intestine.

So any ideas???? I am really sorry this is so long but I tried to give you as much info as possible without giving you the whole life story.

Thanks guys for reading.