Special Ed. Students & Grading Scales | ADHD Information

My son goes to a high school that has increased their grading scales this
year. Roughly.....this is it 95%-100% =A, 94-86 = B, 85-75 = C 74-66 =
D, <than this = F.

He has dyslexia & ADHD & has had an IEP since 2nd grade.

Every year he continues to make improvements & especially over the last
year he's shown tremendous improvement.

This is his first year at the "regular" high school in our district. Up until
now he's attended a charter Montessori school.

At the beginning of the year, I watched him work his tail end
off.....coming home & religiously doing his homework every night after
school. He balanced this with football practice & lifting weights nearly
every day as well.

He's working roughly in the low to mid 80 %'s which is ending up to be
all C's. His confidence & self-esteem has pretty much bottomed out now
as he is finding (like many other times in his life dealing with his
diagnosis) the attitude "no matter how I hard I try it's never good
enough."

The worse he feels, the less effort he puts in it because he figures it
doesn't matter anyway.

In his IEP meeting, his special ed. teacher & I decided we were going to
write into his plan that they needed to use the traditional grading scale
for him (90-100, 80-90, etc.) The administration is now fighting this
because they say his IQ is 6 points over average.

Does anyone have any experience with accomodations in grading scales
or any advice for how I might proceed? I have a meeting with the asst.
principal and the dist. special ed. director next week.A note from a doctor certainly helps. They (the schools) fight you tooth and nail for everthing. It is just a bigger pay out to them. I think your idea is a great one. The higher expectations are just too high for the average child let alone one with learning issues.