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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 576844" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>SFR: easy child's sport and school are not related. We don't have school sports at all, just PE and then some sport orientated High Schools that basically just offer some flexibility with school work and supporting services for talented athletes. easy child attends one of those, but of course flexibility also means that you have to be responsible with your time management. I helped easy child heavily with that through his first two periods so that he would see, he can do well also in High School-level (around here grades 10-12 are High School and those are divided to academical and vocationally orientated schools, level of the work is much tougher in academic High School than in grade 9.) they have five periods a year, usually 5 to 7 courses per period and with new period there will be all new independently graded courses but of course courses build on to each other in many subject. We let him do it all by himself for this now ending third period. As expected, he didn't manage his time well and is now paying the price with bad grades. We hope, and strongly believe knowing him, that bad grades for period or two will teach him the lesson and he will learn to manage his time independently. Bad grades now don't really matter at all in the longer term and if they do bother him, he can even make them up later. So no harm done and perfect chance to teach him a valuable lesson.</p><p></p><p>We are not planning giving him any other consequences over his bad grades. After all we are heavily driving through the idea that he is going to school for himself and not for anyone else. So bad grades are his consequence. And that he won't get a vechile he would want and which we wouldn't give him anyway. This is just a perfect reason to say no without having to tell him the real reason.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 576844, member: 14557"] SFR: easy child's sport and school are not related. We don't have school sports at all, just PE and then some sport orientated High Schools that basically just offer some flexibility with school work and supporting services for talented athletes. easy child attends one of those, but of course flexibility also means that you have to be responsible with your time management. I helped easy child heavily with that through his first two periods so that he would see, he can do well also in High School-level (around here grades 10-12 are High School and those are divided to academical and vocationally orientated schools, level of the work is much tougher in academic High School than in grade 9.) they have five periods a year, usually 5 to 7 courses per period and with new period there will be all new independently graded courses but of course courses build on to each other in many subject. We let him do it all by himself for this now ending third period. As expected, he didn't manage his time well and is now paying the price with bad grades. We hope, and strongly believe knowing him, that bad grades for period or two will teach him the lesson and he will learn to manage his time independently. Bad grades now don't really matter at all in the longer term and if they do bother him, he can even make them up later. So no harm done and perfect chance to teach him a valuable lesson. We are not planning giving him any other consequences over his bad grades. After all we are heavily driving through the idea that he is going to school for himself and not for anyone else. So bad grades are his consequence. And that he won't get a vechile he would want and which we wouldn't give him anyway. This is just a perfect reason to say no without having to tell him the real reason. [/QUOTE]
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