and I LIKED it!
So… I had my meeting with the principal of my son’s school. Mrs. S . I feel MUCH better after having spoken with her.
We now have a plan. They are going to let him read books from the library that are a higher degree of difficulty. Those books seem to be the ones that interest him. (Go figure. He wants what he can’t have *rolls eyes*) They are going to try to use a reward system with him as well. If he does all his homework, classwork and daily class chores without having to be told to and without having to be fussed at AND he has all A’s and B’s in his classes he gets to skip Art (Which he hates) and gets an extra period in the Computer Lab (Which he LOVES).
Mrs. S is going to see if there are any available text books that Shecky can bring home. I will go over the material they work on in class with him. If they don’t have any extra text books they’ll find some for me. Period. Full Stop.
The teachers are going to have to email me once a week with an update on how he is doing. Letting me know any behavior issues or if there is something he is struggling with in his classwork.
We also discussed the teacher that told me she was too busy to keep me informed of what was going on with my son. The one that told me she likes to “Suprise the parents with the progress reports”. Yeah… her. She’s in deep shit. Mrs. S was SO. NOT. HAPPY. about that. We’ll see if it does any good.
She also suggested, due to our family situation, that Shecky speak with the counselor once a month. She thinks his missing his dad may have something to do with his lack of desire to accomplish and do. We’re going to do one session and then we’ll see if he needs more.
I’ve said that to say this… I’m hopeful. I really LIKE this principal. She’s willing to go to the wall with the teachers for the betterment of the kids. THAT is an educator! Damn. We may have gotten lucky.
