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Cari Lynn
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All morning while cleaning I keep rolling around in my mind whether or not to go to the high school and talk to my son Drew's counselor. I got an email from his psychiatric teacher after I sent her one that was a bit curt, she explained that when a student is my son's age, 16, and a junior/senior in high school, she shouldn't be expected to police them, nor will she. She also eluded to the fact she checked on his grades in other classes and he seems to have a pattern of failing classes. She did offer that she is always in class at certain times should he wish to come talk to her or have help.
For some reason, this really well, ****** me off. I was thinking of talking to the counselor about getting ALL his teachers together, as he is failing 5 of 7 classes, telling them that we do have an adolescent counselor working with Drew, something is going on, and is it too much to ask, if he isn't doing the in class work, police him a little more? Go by his desk a bit more often, remind him or be firm with him and tell him to DO his in class work. That if this was just pure laziness on his part then okay, I could see letting him fall flat on his face and learn, but this isn't the case, and it is probably easier to work with the kids who want to learn or who genuinely try but are struggling, but I, as his Mom, am asking for help. See what they say, am I crazy to do this?
But then there is the voice of reason. It says that the counselor and his dad and I already tried to talk to him about his failing grades and I am not doing it attitude, that when we talked to him about getting a tutor or having the teacher help him, he said he probably wouldn't do it anyway. So why bother helping more. Or just leave him alone till after the holidays, after we, hopefully, get him in for the psychiatric evaluation and then see what they find and after seeing what we can do go from there. I don't know anymore...I want results and answers and I have nothing yet!!
I just don't know what to do...
For some reason, this really well, ****** me off. I was thinking of talking to the counselor about getting ALL his teachers together, as he is failing 5 of 7 classes, telling them that we do have an adolescent counselor working with Drew, something is going on, and is it too much to ask, if he isn't doing the in class work, police him a little more? Go by his desk a bit more often, remind him or be firm with him and tell him to DO his in class work. That if this was just pure laziness on his part then okay, I could see letting him fall flat on his face and learn, but this isn't the case, and it is probably easier to work with the kids who want to learn or who genuinely try but are struggling, but I, as his Mom, am asking for help. See what they say, am I crazy to do this?
But then there is the voice of reason. It says that the counselor and his dad and I already tried to talk to him about his failing grades and I am not doing it attitude, that when we talked to him about getting a tutor or having the teacher help him, he said he probably wouldn't do it anyway. So why bother helping more. Or just leave him alone till after the holidays, after we, hopefully, get him in for the psychiatric evaluation and then see what they find and after seeing what we can do go from there. I don't know anymore...I want results and answers and I have nothing yet!!
I just don't know what to do...