bad school report not doing homework what would you do

[sue1386]

thanks for thatthat was very helpful. thank you. and gave me a good laugh too. very clever.

[Lulu]

Do check with the school about the email contact. Some schools are implementing this in various forms.
DD is doing VCE and she can access information she needs and submit it directly to the school.

Another thing you may like to investigate is maybe a youth group/teen group in your area. DD was tapped into one through Anglicare when she was about the same age. She didn't cope very well with my miscarriage and the councellor used to see her after school and drop her home. Because DD was involved in this service she was also eligible for these awesome leadership/confidence camps in the school holidays. It cost me nothing (sole parent), and she really enjoyed herself.

I think kids need sources of friends outside school esp in the teen years. Things aren't so hard when you have people on the outside

[sue1386]

thanks for that lulu. this is my youngest of several children. with the others they did go to various things that sound similar to what you are talking about. i dont know if it helped them. but definitely having outside hobbies sports interests helps at that age. she is interested in drama which is quite costly and not necesarily so local either so i have not chased it up.

thanks for all the hints everyone has been really helpful and i will chase this all up thank you.

Sue.

[Caz1971]

Gosh, this sounds like my DS who is in yr 7. He has had a few little projects here and there but no consistent homework.
Luckily next week he gets his school report and we have teacher inteviews on the thurs. So will def. be asking abt the 'homework' issue. I remember going to highschool in the 80s, Im pretty sure we had maths/english every night. My DS - nothing. I also put it down to a 'boys' thing...