My friend's children, ages 18 and 15, are way behind but instead of the school acknowledging the problem and providing help they have suggested that she consider homeschooling.
I advised her to make the school provide the help her kids need. It's the school's fault that it is just now coming to light that these kids who are both A students only read on a 6th grade level and do math on a 5th grade level.
How can you get to high school, make As in your subjects but can't test above 5th/6th grade? I think the school doesn't want these kids counted in the NCLB testing scores so they are recommending they be removed from the school. No kids, no low scores = no problem for the school, but life long problems for the kids.
PS. I don't find my friend blameless in all this, I can't figure out how her kids got to this state without her recognizing they were having trouble.