Its funny (not ha ha) on how so many students dont take advantage of resources provided to them or how they dont ask for help. I have to imagine is that some of these students exceled at High School and never needed to ask for help. I have a younger son with learning disablities and went to a school from 5th - 12th grade where they cater do these types of kids. These all are very smart and emotionally stable kids who whatever reason have some sort of processing issue that prevents them from learning like a typical kid. The most important thing they are taught is to self advocate. He is in college now, and he uses all of the resources provided by the school. If he doesnt understand or has an issue, he will see the teacher during office hours. He goes to the writing labs for help when needed and any other lab that school may have. In other words, he takes advantage of everything in order to get good grades because he knows he needs it. My other son who is in the AF who never had a problem with school but also never had great grades, probably never talked to a professor outside of class. I am sure if he had self advocated for himself, he would have done better. We always joke around that it was lucky that the harder worker had the learning problems.
