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Our Go Fund Me page is seeking monetary contributions towards my son Asher Beck's annual private school tuition for the 2016-17 school year.
Asher has been accepted into Oak Crest Academy. He will be attending the Tarzana micro-campus in the Fall. The school was opened in 2013 and is specifically for highly/profoundly gifted children. He will be with 12 kids grades K-8, receiving individualized instruction with a heavy emphasis on the socio-emotional challenges faced by highly/profoundly gifted children.
At age 1, Asher spoke in complete, coherent sentences. By 3, he had taught himself how to read chapter books from his sister's middle school collection. At 5, it was determined that he had an IQ of 150. That level of intellect is a blessing and a curse. Asher has struggled his entire life with anxiety, existential depression and inadequate school experiences, despite being in specialized "gifted" programs.
Asher is a funny, brilliant, creative, energetic, frustrating, demanding, and exhausting little person. He is a joy to raise. He is wicked smart with a great sense of humor. He's sensitive and passionate. He aspires to be an automotive engineer/designer, owning his own automotive company and he would also like to work as a forensic automotive accident reconstructionist at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. He enjoys learning about natural disasters and this summer he's attending an engineering camp for kids.
Highly/profoundly gifted children are particularly vulnerable and require modifications in parenting, teaching and counseling in order for them to develop optimally.
Asher has suffered emotionally, socially and intellectually since kindergarten. This past year he fell into a depression so deep, he was suicidal. His anxiety had him confined to certain rooms in our house. He feels alone each day at school, unable to understand peer's social demands and interests. For the past 5 years we've been asked to leave schools, made to feel unwelcome and wrong. We have been told time and again that he's too difficult to deal with in a regular environment because of his emotional intensity, anxiety and perfectionism - all common highly gifted traits. Our family has had to fight at every school. I receive calls almost daily from the principal's office. I can't tell you how many days I sat in my car at my office in tears, feeling hopeless and angry.
He has stabilized and made a complete turnaround with therapy, medication and the prospect of attending a school where he's understood by teachers and administrators. Multiple psychologists who have tested him over the years have said nothing a regular school can do will ever meet Asher's needs. I will never stop fighting for my child to be who he is, be understood and given the tools he needs to realize his potential.
Right now, today, he has a chance to be supported and challenged in a safe, responsive school environment where he can truly be himself. Our family (me, Nyah and Asher) are so committed to securing this opportunity we will be relocating to be closer to the campus. His sister will also be changing schools, with no hesitation because she knows all we go through each day.
PLEASE help make attending Oak Crest Academy a reality for Asher. Your support is so vital and genuinely appreciated.
Asher has been accepted into Oak Crest Academy. He will be attending the Tarzana micro-campus in the Fall. The school was opened in 2013 and is specifically for highly/profoundly gifted children. He will be with 12 kids grades K-8, receiving individualized instruction with a heavy emphasis on the socio-emotional challenges faced by highly/profoundly gifted children.
At age 1, Asher spoke in complete, coherent sentences. By 3, he had taught himself how to read chapter books from his sister's middle school collection. At 5, it was determined that he had an IQ of 150. That level of intellect is a blessing and a curse. Asher has struggled his entire life with anxiety, existential depression and inadequate school experiences, despite being in specialized "gifted" programs.
Asher is a funny, brilliant, creative, energetic, frustrating, demanding, and exhausting little person. He is a joy to raise. He is wicked smart with a great sense of humor. He's sensitive and passionate. He aspires to be an automotive engineer/designer, owning his own automotive company and he would also like to work as a forensic automotive accident reconstructionist at the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety. He enjoys learning about natural disasters and this summer he's attending an engineering camp for kids.
Highly/profoundly gifted children are particularly vulnerable and require modifications in parenting, teaching and counseling in order for them to develop optimally.
Asher has suffered emotionally, socially and intellectually since kindergarten. This past year he fell into a depression so deep, he was suicidal. His anxiety had him confined to certain rooms in our house. He feels alone each day at school, unable to understand peer's social demands and interests. For the past 5 years we've been asked to leave schools, made to feel unwelcome and wrong. We have been told time and again that he's too difficult to deal with in a regular environment because of his emotional intensity, anxiety and perfectionism - all common highly gifted traits. Our family has had to fight at every school. I receive calls almost daily from the principal's office. I can't tell you how many days I sat in my car at my office in tears, feeling hopeless and angry.
He has stabilized and made a complete turnaround with therapy, medication and the prospect of attending a school where he's understood by teachers and administrators. Multiple psychologists who have tested him over the years have said nothing a regular school can do will ever meet Asher's needs. I will never stop fighting for my child to be who he is, be understood and given the tools he needs to realize his potential.
Right now, today, he has a chance to be supported and challenged in a safe, responsive school environment where he can truly be himself. Our family (me, Nyah and Asher) are so committed to securing this opportunity we will be relocating to be closer to the campus. His sister will also be changing schools, with no hesitation because she knows all we go through each day.
PLEASE help make attending Oak Crest Academy a reality for Asher. Your support is so vital and genuinely appreciated.