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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I, apparently, may be that one person in DCUM land who agrees with you!  My DS is kind of like yours.  In our area 6th grade is still elementary school so there is still easier grading etc by the teachers and so the  issues are less noticeable.  I think my DS partly is just a very young person for his age and I wish I had redshirted him in K for that.  His birthday is late spring so it would have been fine.

Anyway, literally think of him as younger really helps me  -- so I have less judgement and frustration regarding schoolwork. I check his blackboard every other day (quick look at  the app on my phone) just to have a sense of what he should be doing.

I have lots of stories from friends and just reading online of people saying they didn't do that well in school, didn't care, etc until they were in college and found something they really liked.  These stories help me from feeling so anxious about it!  Going to any state school will be fine with me.  I am more focused, long term, on him having a particular career plan.  Something he would want to do.  (But I have lots of extended family members who got good grades in college but came out with zero direction or skills and really floundered.)  Sorry for the long post.  [/quote]

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