Just my two cents...
Get you kid out of that $hithole ASAP!
I was a "special" child (I know... I know... that explains a lot!
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The "system" simply didn't know how to deal with me, I would have brilliant moments so they would put me in the "gifted" class and when I would fail there they put me in the "dummy" class where I would excel then they would put in normal classes where again some teacher would see something and put me back with the gifted kids. This plus certain parts of my upbringing at home combine to give sever low self esteem that manifested itself when I was a young adult into alcohol and drug abuse.
I have since learned on my own that I am an "outside the box" thinker and thus did not fit into the meat girder public school system.
Is private school a possibility (expensive I know... but not as expensive as the ten years of my life I lost to drugs and alcohol) or a transfer to a different school?