Finding it hard to type this but we are still struggling with Joey, despite the progress made with his diet and behavior most of the time.  We learned yesterday that he was not well-behaved during the rehearsal for the school play on Saturday.  He would not focus and kept messing about.  Then Mrs H told Anne after school yesterday that he a) had some sort of confrontation with another kid during break and b) did not really do the work in class.

Then at home he was very difficult with Anne during homework.  He was struggling with his maths but refused to let Anne help him then became very 'difficult'.  Anne lost it a bit and was very upset.  It all escalated and there were tears all around.  I was in the basement with Izzy trying to distract her but she gets upset when she hears this, understandably. 

Ms H thinks that Joey might do best with home schooling. She hopes that he will finish out the year at Cambridge but fears that he is simply not keeping up and will struggle even more next year.  It is not that he is not smart enough - he is.  But he will not focus enough and therefore is not absorbing the knowledge that he needs to progress.    

It is so frustrating.  He is such a great kid in so many ways but simply will not try hard enough often enough.  We are not sure what to do.