My 16 year old son has ADD and takes Concerta. He's bee on medication since 2nd grade. The past two years he's been failing certain classes in school. I've worked with these teachers almost on a daily basis to help him succeed in those classes. The problem is that he doesn't like school. At the beginning of the school year he starting having panic attacks and missed alot of school. He didn't make up any of his work, his grades starting falling and he just won't do homework and/or won't turn it in. He really is an A/B student. Anyway, he failed two classes. A few weeks ago I got so tired of the whole thing and sent his guidance counselor an email asking if he's too young to drop out and get his GED. She said that there is a new community school within his old high school that is 4 hours a day which the kids work on a computer and have two classes online a month. They work at their own pace. I guess it is like credit recovery school. He is going to start that next week. In the meantime, I caught him outside the back door smoking out of a pipe at 8:00 one Saturday morning. We had a discussion with him about how he shouldn't be doing this, it's illegal, blah, blah, blah. He said he would stop. Well, the past couple of days when he's getting ready for school, he'll come into the kitchen, take is pills, eat something, go back into his room, lock the door, then I hear him start coughing, the door unlock and he's out the door to school. We know he's smoking in his room because he's got a bottle of Visine on his dresser, my Hubby can smell smoke (pot) and it's cold in there like he's opened the window, and the windows are usually locked. Anyway, I need advise of what to do with this whole school issue and especially the pot issue. Any ideas, suggestions, Thanks, Kath17

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