Anyone with experience with Summer School,

How do you overcome the "stigma" of summer school? My DS is learning disabled (along with many other issues) and we got our letter for Summer School. He's terrible upset about having to wake up early every day for 6 weeks and this year he has to go for a full session because of deficits in Reading, Writing and Math. My mommy speech of telling him how "lucky" he is that he'll get extra help just isn't working anymore.

I've done the special lunches, promised things after completing and quite frankly I'm mentally exhausted too. It's hard to tell people that we can meet them for play dates and activities only later in the afternoon without going into detail. DS wants NO ONE to ever know where he's at. Just not a good Mommy day, today.

Where my ds used to go to school they stopped calling it summer school. They called it Camp of what ever theme that year. Maybe if you try calling it camp it may help. DS has never had a summer without "camp". When people ask ds to play during it, we say he is at camp til bt he can play then. We try to do something special every week as a reward like go get happy meal or have a picnic. At the end of it we do something really special either a visit to hershey park, a new special toy or book. I don't know your son's age but if he is old enough maybe a special video game or a mom and son day. Good luck.

I'm sorry your child is upset about it. I don't really have any other suggestions except the ones already mentioned....scheduling play dates after he gets out, special lunches, going and renting a movie, letting him make cookies, going to the park for a picnic, going to the library...just anything you can think of that would be a nice reward for when he gets out. Hopefully he'll come around.

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Other than what others have said... It might go away when he starts because summer school can be fun. Yes, I've been to summer school. At first I hated the thought of it but when I got there and started meeting new people my perception changed.

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