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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are you leaving all of the communication to him? I agree with your approach for high schoolers, but not for 6th graders. I would absolutely email the teacher and counselor and ask for a conference to discuss the lab grade.[/quote]

I completely disagree with you. OP needs to call the teacher and ask her how she as a parent can help her DS be less disruptive and a better student. Here is how a similar situation went down for me, some 30 years ago, in Eastern Europe. I got an F on an exam, I was a straight A student. I plain told my teacher that I was not ready for it, and that I know nothing. My mom was coming back from work, and I told her before she came into the house that, ha, ha I got a bad grade. She smacked the crap out of me, without asking any questions. She had me apologize to my teacher, not for not knowing the material, but for being disrespectful. She didn't ask if teacher was mean, had a thing against me...She didn't ask me for a single detail, apart from my first telling. Now, I do not beat my kids, nor am I suggesting that physical punishment is the way to raise kids. Absolutely not. But, you can bet I was never rude to a teacher, ever again in any class. And I bet you around the world, even today, what happened to me, is happening to millions of kids in different countries around the world. No wonder education system in the U.S. is failing to educated many kids, parents like OP are to blame.[/quote]

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