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[quote=Anonymous]Of course they can change.  I put in a lot of time with my son in middle school for organizing and trying to set him up with a system.   To be honest, 9th grade started off well but took a nose dive and was really bad.  The transition to HS was rough.  Worse than 8th.

There’s good news, things slowly improved and this is a marathon.  Every year after that, his ability to independently manage his assignments, complete those assignments and turn them in improved.  This year as a senior he was able to do his complete huge research paper on his own with no tutor or anything from start to finish hitting all the deadlines.  That included the sources, annotated bibliography, thesis,  outline, MLA, several pages etc.  I never thought that would have been possible in 8th grade.

So don’t give up hope.  It was a long time of tutoring and me sitting with him with the backpack filled with crumpled papers and trying to find those missing assignments to get to that point.  They can grow and mature.  He was able and got accepted to colleges despite a terrible 9th grade year even.  [/quote]

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