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[quote=Anonymous]OP: We reward DS for his effort score and not his grades. He brings home mainly 4's with the occasional 3. But we look straight at the effort score and that is what we discuss. All 3's and 4's in effort allows him to choose a special activity, going out to the movies, dinner, or bowling. We comment that his grades are great and they reflect that he is doing a good job making his best effort. He knows that if he comes home with an effort score below a 3 we are going to be disappointed. He did bring home a 2 in writing, there was no issue because his LA effort score was a 4. We did talk to the Teacher about writing and it turns out he needs to work on punctuation and capitalization. We are working on that at home but he still go to pick his reward.

He has told us that what they are doing is boring and we let him know that we hear him. We suggest he make up extra math problems or find something to write about when he finishes his work. But he cannot do anything that disrupts his classmates. There are others who don't find the work easy and they need to be able to do their work without being distracted. His Teachers have different activities that the can do when they are done with their work, either books to read or paper to draw on or write on.

I would focus on correcting his attitude. It is ok for the work to be easy but he has to complete it and without attitude. Tell him that he is learning to show his work and demonstrate that he knows the material. Once he has done that, he is more likely to do what he wants once the work is done then if he simply refuses to do what he told to do. If DS was unwilling to do the work he is expected to do or is rolling his eyes at his teachers he would be losing privileges at home and completing the work at home to return to school. [/quote]

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