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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You text your kid - "You have a C in English and it appears that you haven't turned in 3 assignments.  What happened?"

Kid answers:  I did the assignments early.  I just completely forgot to turn them in.  They're done though.

Me:  O.k. then you will need to stay after school and show those assignments to the teacher.  Make sure that you did them right and explain what happened.  Maybe you'll get partial credit.

Kid:  But I have Chess club after school and I don't want to miss it!

Me: O.k. then see you if you can see your teacher right before class or after class or during lunch.  You need to talk to your teacher.

Kid: O.k.

Later....

Kid:  Mom I talked to the teacher during lunch and she is going to give me partial credit.  That brings my grade up to a B.

Me:  Good.  When you get home, I want you to work on your assignment due tomorrow.  I'll want to see it after dinner.[/quote]

You text your kid - "You have a C in English. What happened?"

Kid answers: “The teacher is a really hard grader and she hates me.”

You: “I know that’s a hard class, but it seems like you need to spend more time on the next assignment.”

Kid: “I did! You don’t trust me!”  (You happen to know DH and the kids were catching up on Stranger Things after school all last week.)

You: “I know you can do this, if you just give it a little more time. I’m happy to read your essay when I get home.”

Kid: “You don’t trust me! Why are you stalking me online anyway? You have issues. Dad doesn’t do this!”[/quote]

Me: Excuse me.  You are the one with the low grade in English.  I will be checking your grades until that grade is brought up.  You have an assignment due in English tomorrow.  I want you to work on that and I want to see it tonight.  If it looks like you are doing a good job and your teacher is being an unreasonable grader I will need to talk to the teacher.

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Kid: I can handle this, why are you in my business? You’re a Black Cloud! Why can’t you be more like Dad, who is cool with it? If he doesn’t care, why should you? [/quote]

I am honestly not sure how I'd handle that.  My dh and I have always been on the same page with this sort of thing and we have always backed each other up in this regard.

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