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[quote=Anonymous]I've been there.  DS is now a senior in HS and doing fine.  For us, things started getting better in sophomore year after many years of frustration for all.  DS had trouble focusing since elementary school, so always an issue he/we struggled with.  In 8th grade, when it became real how much his grades were suffering (and we feared his self-esteem too), we got a 504 in place.  Issues were not turning in homework, forgetting tests and quizzes, inattention in class, difficulty completing in-class assessments.  504 addressed the last two (priority seating, extra time), but not the homework.  There is no easy answer to that and I'm sure we did lots of things wrong.  What we did do that I think helped over a very long period of time was (1) get him a all-in-one zip binder with tabbed folders for each class (and made him clean it out each week); (2) checked Blackboard constantly to see if things were getting turned in; (3) required him to talk to his teachers about anything he didn't turn in; and (4) require him to turn in all HW even if he wasn't going to get credit for it anymore.  One of the best things was having him talk to his teachers.  He became very good at self-advocacy, learned to like a lot of his teachers, and his teachers got to know him better.  You enlisting the teachers support informally may help too but it will depend on the teacher.  So we tried to help (and failed a lot), and meanwhile, he grew up.  We all learned a lot in the process.  Now, 1st quarter senior year almost done and not missing anything.  Is his 1st choice college a long-shot bc of grades?  Yes.  But he has lots of other good schools to shoot for.  Try to make it about the effort and improvement, not the GPA right now.  Don't talk about college.  He's not listening, it's too far away.  Talk about what's right now.  Hang in there.[/quote]

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