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"Can you buy me some grades?" -- **updated**
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<blockquote data-quote="flutterbee" data-source="post: 46476"><p>I don't blame you for being aggravated. been there done that. Good for you for letting him sweat it out.</p><p></p><p>The difference with my son is that he didn't "pass" the 6th, 7th, <em>or</em> 8th grade. He was placed into the next grade. When it happened again in the 8th grade, I figured it was setting him up for failure in high school. And he really struggled in 9th grade. Not with doing the work, but with not knowing what he should have learned in previous grades. The teachers don't have time to go back and re-teach those things. Fortunately, his English teacher (his worst subject) took an interest in him and really held his hand. If it hadn't been for her, I'm pretty sure he would have failed English I. It helped that she had a child diagnosis'd with depression so she really "got it" with easy child.</p><p></p><p>All the consequences in the world prior to high school did nothing to make him do the work. I took away the game systems, tv...everything. It didn't matter. So, I resorted to begging the school to hold him back. There was nothing else left in my arsenal and I knew how much harder it was going to make high school and how much harder it would be on him to fail classes in high school. You don't just skate by in high school. You have to retake those classes if you want to graduate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="flutterbee, post: 46476"] I don't blame you for being aggravated. been there done that. Good for you for letting him sweat it out. The difference with my son is that he didn't "pass" the 6th, 7th, [i]or[/i] 8th grade. He was placed into the next grade. When it happened again in the 8th grade, I figured it was setting him up for failure in high school. And he really struggled in 9th grade. Not with doing the work, but with not knowing what he should have learned in previous grades. The teachers don't have time to go back and re-teach those things. Fortunately, his English teacher (his worst subject) took an interest in him and really held his hand. If it hadn't been for her, I'm pretty sure he would have failed English I. It helped that she had a child diagnosis'd with depression so she really "got it" with easy child. All the consequences in the world prior to high school did nothing to make him do the work. I took away the game systems, tv...everything. It didn't matter. So, I resorted to begging the school to hold him back. There was nothing else left in my arsenal and I knew how much harder it was going to make high school and how much harder it would be on him to fail classes in high school. You don't just skate by in high school. You have to retake those classes if you want to graduate. [/QUOTE]
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