u/Medicine-Illustrious

My kid (18) has OCD. We are at a family members summer house and he wants to leave due to seeing a centipede in the basement room. This is a beautiful vacation many would pay thousands to be on and we brought my elderly mom. There are not too many more years where we can be together like this. We are supposed to go on another short trip in a week and given that I do not want to have a repeat of this situation, I fear I have to cancel it and forfeit air bnb deposits. This is so debilitating for him and I feel controlled by it. Our lives have gotten smaller and smaller and we cannot even visit with family anymore. Due to an ocd fixation, we missed a funeral where I would have seen cousins I haven't seen in 20 years, he has dropped out of school due to obsessions and does online school. He has lost a lot of weight. He has already been hospitalized once and refuses further treatment. I cannot force a 6 foot, almost 18 year old person to go to therapy. When we are at home he sleeps all day and his only friends are people he insults in online games.

Doing a 3 year eval. My district provides Woodcock Johnson but my student is 9 and only able to identify letters and numbers. So do I just take him through WJ and let him score very low on all sections? Is there a more appropriate test?

I’ve been offered a year 2 contract by the skin of my teeth at my better but still Title 1 school. This year I was in a self contained room and I was exhausted and overwhelmed I just interviewed at another school in district that has many more issues. It’s a school targeted for turn around and possible merging in a few years. The kids are very needy but it’s a resource position that seems to have better team support (such as case management meetings). I like both of the principals but feel I made too many errors this year (mostly with dealing with behaviors unsuccessfully and a domineering para). Go to more troubled school for fresh start or stay where I think I have a bad rep that I need to turn around?