After a conference with 3 of my oldest's teachers yesterday, I got to come home and ream him over his grades in the one class. The other grades are very acceptable. I figured that there was a problem with him when he started hedging on what his grade was in that class--and sure enough he has several very low test grades, but also zero's on the assignments leading directly to those tests. So he got some ground rules laid down to him last night and the warning that that grade had better come up dramatically the next 6 weeks--since this one is nearly over---or in the future he would find himself minus video games, etc., in lieu of studying. And this weekend he gets to lay out all his papers for me so I can look over them and find out where else he went wrong.
He thinks it is a sign of weakness or something to ask for help in class. Even his teachers said he never asks for help. So we tried to impress upon him that it is better to ask for help than not. At least then, we know what he is having problems with, and hopefully can help him before he gets bogged down and frustrated.
The permission slip thing for the other kids ended up being a case of pass the buck. So I am trying to engage others in the local paper's forum. So far the only taker is my dad.
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