Wow, cannot believe how long it has been since I touched this blog. September really it is almost May now and well let’s just say it was a very busy winter in our household.
The school year is winding down and thankfully school for the most part has gone very well. Connections Academy was truly the wonderful program they promised and we are signed up to attend again next year. Now don’t get me wrong our son is still trying to get out of doing any work that doesn’t have to be directly viewed by the teacher. He claims he doesn’t need to do every little thing they suggest. I am of the mindset that unless you are making straight A’s then you do need to do every little assignment they give you. But that is just a life lesson he will have to learn for himself.
Lessons yep he is getting ready to learn a view of those for sure.
We set a reward out for him in December make all A’s in your core classes, i.e. Language Arts, Math, Science, and Social Studies and we would buy him an IPod touch for all of the hard work. We have discussed this goal weekly all semester. Every poor grade that was a result of not trying versus not understanding we discussed it again. Now he is down to crunch time and is having to beg teachers for extra credit work to make up for the goofing off earlier in the year.
He has told his friend that we will still get it for him because he is working so hard this last month. Well that does not work for us, you must work hard the entire semester to get the reward, not just try the last month of school.
Guess this will just have to be the year of life lessons in the virtual public school world for our son. But hopefully this means that next year he will do better than ever!
