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[quote=Anonymous]I stopped looking at the grade book by high school, and I have a disorganized ADHD kid.  He's pretty laid back and not motivated to get all As, but he does care about the bottom line and the grade that will go on his transcript.  He usually sets a year-end goal for each class early in the year and does enough to meet that goal (sometimes the goal is a B, and that's fine) and this requires [i]him[/i] to check his grade book frequently.  He has resisted attempts to impose a system, planners, calendars, so I just let him have at it and don't give myself a chance to over-react to an occasional poor test or quiz grade, or even a lower quarter grade.  He's learned to bounce back without my intervention.

I found this much easier to do with kid #2 because I learned some lessons from kid #1.  School is important and it's their job, but there has to be a balance.  Kid 2 is in perfectly fine shape for college even if he forgot to turn in a few assignments along the way, was unprepared for a presentation, or could have studied a little more for that one test. [/quote]

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