His school has concluded that he best way to deal with this "situation" is to close out his grades at the end of the third term - giving him full credit for 10th grade, even though he didn't complete the year. I had asked for them to send the rest of the material up to the facility, as they have teachers who would go over it with him. The answer was no - they were just going to declare him done. So, we're working with the distance learning coordinator to make sure he's mastered all the 10th grade material in English and Geometry before moving on to 11th grade. The will be gaps in History, Biology, and Spanish that we can either accept, or figure out how to deal with later.
In order to get the credit for the year, however, we needed a note from his pediatrician, which I picked up and dropped off today.
This situation is really frustrating - as this seems to be the worst sort of "social promotion"...I think they are reluctant to provide the materials because that would acknowledge that someone needs to assume responsibility for his education while he's there...and if it's them, they need to pay for it. So just saying "Yep, he's done!' is simpler.
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