Ben's project

This was Ben's reaction to me asking him to please re-edit his paper and write in paragraphs like he was supposed to,

Ben had to do a North Dakota project for school, and he decided to make a keelboat scene.  A keelboat is the type of boat that Lewis and Clark rode up the Missouri to North Dakota.  Rich and Ben worked really hard on the diorama!  He also had to write a one page paper on his project, which of course he didn't want to work on -at-all- after his project was done.  So mom comes to the rescue and searches the internet, finding lots of info about keelboats and putting them all in bullet points for him to expand into paragraphs.  He reluctantly went down to the computer to type up his 3 paragraph paper, and came back up with a one page typed paper of bullet points, written word for word like I had done it.  So after some editing I sent him back down to redo it.  It came back up changed about 1%.  I was frustrated, Rich was frustrated, and Ben was frustrated and completely done with the whole thing, so Mom did something she shouldn't have done.  Mom went down and wrote the paper for Ben. 
Ben was actually very proud of his diorama, and was really excited to take it to school.  They each did a little presentation telling about their projects.  Ben brought his score sheet home, and Rich got 40/40 on his project, I got a 40/40 on my paper, and Ben got 15/20 on his presentation (only marked down for not making eye contact....a complete Asperger's thing that really he shouldn't have been marked down for, but whatever.  I'm really worried about how he'll do next year and in jr.high.  I think we'll work toward getting him an IEP or a 504 by next year....it would kill me to see him struggling through school.