16 yrs. Grade 11
My son (now 16) has always had a difficult time in school. He was labelled early as hyper and impulsive, but he was happy and wanted to befriend everyone. This label followed him everywhere. The phone calls came so often and were so stressful that, every day at 1:30, I would turn my phone on silent because, like clockwork, they would call and complain about him, and I would stress and feel hurt, knowing that this was it for him; this was going to be his whole school experience, no matter where we moved or what we did. He was…