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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 565995" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>Late assignments; used to be a bane of my existence. Well after we gave up difficult child actually going to school. When he was basically given a permission to play truant as much as he wished, school wanted him show his mastery of the subject also in homework assignments and projects, not only in exams. And you can probably guess how late they used to be and what a battle it was to make him do them. I gave up that battle too, when he finished his compulsory 9 grades and was doing voluntary part of grades 10 to 12. His coaches have not been as good in detachment than I (his team management did after all promise to look after his schooling when he moved out of home) and have been close to ulcer because of those late assignments. But now that it is almost over and done with (only graduation ceremony is left and difficult child plans to be truant from that one too <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />) It is easy to laugh for all that.</p><p></p><p>My favourite late assignment story is a newer one. difficult child got an assignment over two years ago. He had to analyse few Charles Baudelaire's poems and write about thematics of his poems a bit more. He decided to use German porn movies as a comparison. His teacher felt he went too far off topic from assignment and demanded a new version. difficult child refused. It was considered a late assignment and to get a grade he needed to turn in a new version and teacher also gave him a new poem to analyse every week the assignment was late. And teacher declined to give him final grade from the course before he had given back both the original new version and all the other poem analysis. difficult child felt it was an illegal punishment and refused to do any extra analysis, or redo the original. He of course was right, our school law doesn't make it possible for teacher to give that kind of punishment. But none of us backed difficult child up and some reason he didn't go over the teacher's or principal's head. Or simply didn't do that course in some other school and transferred the credit. He simply had that incomplete there hanging until this summer he got serious with his hanging incompletes. And ended up doing over two years worth of poem analysis. In August this year he turned in redo of the original, over hundred other poem analysis and twenty page essay about how and why this kind of punishment was illegal (last one he wasn't asked to do that one he came up all by himself.) So idiot child of mine ended up very well versed in poetry because of his hard-headedness. And lucky little idiot he is, he had an option to make his essay in his finals about poem analysis. And after all that practise he did extremely well in that <img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/emoticons/bigsmile.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":bigsmile:" title="big smile :bigsmile:" data-shortname=":bigsmile:" /> There certainly are times when I don't know if I should laugh or cry over little idiot of mine and his stubborn ways. </p><p></p><p>I hope your son's teacher can help with coming up with some incentive to get your son to do his work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 565995, member: 14557"] Late assignments; used to be a bane of my existence. Well after we gave up difficult child actually going to school. When he was basically given a permission to play truant as much as he wished, school wanted him show his mastery of the subject also in homework assignments and projects, not only in exams. And you can probably guess how late they used to be and what a battle it was to make him do them. I gave up that battle too, when he finished his compulsory 9 grades and was doing voluntary part of grades 10 to 12. His coaches have not been as good in detachment than I (his team management did after all promise to look after his schooling when he moved out of home) and have been close to ulcer because of those late assignments. But now that it is almost over and done with (only graduation ceremony is left and difficult child plans to be truant from that one too :winking:) It is easy to laugh for all that. My favourite late assignment story is a newer one. difficult child got an assignment over two years ago. He had to analyse few Charles Baudelaire's poems and write about thematics of his poems a bit more. He decided to use German porn movies as a comparison. His teacher felt he went too far off topic from assignment and demanded a new version. difficult child refused. It was considered a late assignment and to get a grade he needed to turn in a new version and teacher also gave him a new poem to analyse every week the assignment was late. And teacher declined to give him final grade from the course before he had given back both the original new version and all the other poem analysis. difficult child felt it was an illegal punishment and refused to do any extra analysis, or redo the original. He of course was right, our school law doesn't make it possible for teacher to give that kind of punishment. But none of us backed difficult child up and some reason he didn't go over the teacher's or principal's head. Or simply didn't do that course in some other school and transferred the credit. He simply had that incomplete there hanging until this summer he got serious with his hanging incompletes. And ended up doing over two years worth of poem analysis. In August this year he turned in redo of the original, over hundred other poem analysis and twenty page essay about how and why this kind of punishment was illegal (last one he wasn't asked to do that one he came up all by himself.) So idiot child of mine ended up very well versed in poetry because of his hard-headedness. And lucky little idiot he is, he had an option to make his essay in his finals about poem analysis. And after all that practise he did extremely well in that :bigsmile: There certainly are times when I don't know if I should laugh or cry over little idiot of mine and his stubborn ways. I hope your son's teacher can help with coming up with some incentive to get your son to do his work. [/QUOTE]
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