Our sons sound VERY much alike in that respect! Jude is one of the most INCREDIBLE problem solvers I have ever met! He got into trouble last year because he interjected a teacher with a proposed concept of theirs (you may recall me mentioning this) - he explained why it would work and he was reprimanded and punished with break detention DESPITE the fact that after her disregarding his "socially unacceptable BLURT" of insight - they played the game out, and he was fncking right! haha!

Jude will NEVER work in a mainstream school... and the reasons are simple. He is a LEADER and a free thinker!

I am still going to look into the tutoring and cottage school options, beween now and the end of the year, so that whatever route, he can start the new year on a good foot.

Thank you for your words of support re. what I am doing with him. Really, I am shooting in the dark mostly, but I do FEEL my way through things mostly, and always have - and something tells me that a little self belief and confidence added to his little recipe will help take him a long way... and the extra academic practice etc. cannot hurt.