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His ADHD (inattentive type also) was diagnosed 3 years ago by a county school system psychologist.

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Mybestkids2 I know the school system deals with this issue a lot and at least in the US its mission has changed from educating the workforce to now providing and distributing medical and social services. In a quality system, the could be great benefit from having these services working together. Unfortunately, this system is poorly funded and managed by a bunch of bean counters who are only concerned with $ and test scores. These are not the people I want deciding what is in my child's best interest. In my district they start tracking kids "officially" tracking kids starting in the 2nd grade. As an educator myself, I view this is as outrageous and view this as a lose-lose situation for all ability levels. American's are delusional if we think we have no cast system.

Maybe my own background and paranoia is skewing my perspective in this situation. My preferred approach is to hire and work with a specialist to fully assess if his issues are significant enough to warrant medical treatment. If not, then I will continue to help him create a life and learning environment that can help him maximize his potential. I just don't want to look back 10 yrs from now and say... I should have done more to help him.