<p>Cosar - it was a case of Teenage boy not wanting to have attention drawn to him. He had some accomodations in middle school and hated it. School and homework was such a battle with him for years that we made a deal with him that if he could keep up reasonable grades we would let him choose not to have accomodations - which worked for him. In reality our school district was not very helpful. In elementary school he was struggling horribly. His teachers wanted to get him help but the LD teachers attitude was that they would not test him unless he was 2 years behind (which - surprise - we very much wanted to avoid). I talked to people till I found out the rules and was able to force the issue and get him tested. But even so no real help was forthcoming. A case of quiet and well behaved so falling through the cracks - plus believe it or not - living on the wrong side of the tracks in that not enough kids at our school qualified for free lunch so the school did not have tutors to help. Middle and high school were more helpful but a lot of damage was done by then confidence wise. He is a very bright articulate young man - can argue the hind leg off a donkey - so long as it is verbally and not in writing. I had not heard of dysgraphia (which is not really about penmanship - which is hard for people to understand) before all this so I guess I can try and be understanding of people who think it is an “arcane excuse” . They may need to walk in our shoes to understand.</p>