My son is diagnosed with a generalized anxiety disorder. Today I met with his school about his 504 and something the guidance counselor said is really bothering me. She said in regards to his accommodations and basically taking them away that, "he's going to have to learn to live with his anxiety." I don't know why but that statement is really bothering me. He's 10. Why knowingly make things more difficult for him by removing his safety net just to make him learn to live with it? His dad has an undiagnosed anxiety disorder and I've dealt with panic attacks in the past so I get saying that yeah he will have to live with it but this just isn't sitting right. Am I overreacting?

Ultimately they didn't remove anything but added additional counseling sessions because he needs them (go figure). 

I have to work with these people year after year and with all of the talk about slashing his 504 in the future I want to go into these meetings with a clear understanding of whether or not I'm being reasonable.