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<blockquote data-quote="DaisyFace" data-source="post: 241011" data-attributes="member: 6546"><p>LOL!! O that's definitely the situation!</p><p> </p><p>At the elementary school level...the teachers all post the class homework assignments online--so its very easy to check up on missing work. Unfortunately, by middle school...the students are expected to take responsibility for their own assignments.</p><p> </p><p>After receiving C's and D's last report card--difficult child was automatically enrolled in a weekly "study group" that meets at lunchtime. She was very excited because she thought it would be a great opportunity to make new friends. But after just a couple meetings where the group <em>really did</em> work on studying--she is less than enthused.</p><p> </p><p>The shame of it is--she is very smart and very capable of being a straight A student--but like everything else in her life that might require effort, she is totally uninterested.</p><p> </p><p>Right now, homework is supposed to take priority over any kind of activity (including watching TV, using the phone, etc)--but clearly, these assignments are not even coming home because it always looks like she has no homework to do. So I have to decide whether I am going to put in a lot of effort and try to set up extra communications with each of her teachers to find out whether there was an assignment, when it is due, and what is coming up next--OR whether I am going to let her learn the hard way that when you choose not to do the work now...you are choosing to do the work later (like in summer school...).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DaisyFace, post: 241011, member: 6546"] LOL!! O that's definitely the situation! At the elementary school level...the teachers all post the class homework assignments online--so its very easy to check up on missing work. Unfortunately, by middle school...the students are expected to take responsibility for their own assignments. After receiving C's and D's last report card--difficult child was automatically enrolled in a weekly "study group" that meets at lunchtime. She was very excited because she thought it would be a great opportunity to make new friends. But after just a couple meetings where the group [I]really did[/I] work on studying--she is less than enthused. The shame of it is--she is very smart and very capable of being a straight A student--but like everything else in her life that might require effort, she is totally uninterested. Right now, homework is supposed to take priority over any kind of activity (including watching TV, using the phone, etc)--but clearly, these assignments are not even coming home because it always looks like she has no homework to do. So I have to decide whether I am going to put in a lot of effort and try to set up extra communications with each of her teachers to find out whether there was an assignment, when it is due, and what is coming up next--OR whether I am going to let her learn the hard way that when you choose not to do the work now...you are choosing to do the work later (like in summer school...). [/QUOTE]
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