aargh....

[jay]

James has overall adjusted well to high school... bringing his grades up to A-level in Algebra II, World History, and Literature Survey... everything except in one area. We received today's midterm progress report, and he's in danger of *failing* his Honors Chemistry class. Aargh... it is hard to let go, to let him sink or swim on his own sometimes. I want to dive in and fix it.... but I'm not allowed to do much more for him than help with homework. Although maybe I should investigate whether there are private tutors in chemistry. Any suggestions? His homework and labs have improved, but he is choking on his quizzes and tests.

Unless there's a quick improvement by midterms, he's going to have to drop at least one of his two bands...

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[brian1789.livejournal.com]

If he changes to regular chem now, it goes down as a drop on his transcript. Earlier he was having problems with tests in other areas, but has improved steadily elsewhere. I'm annoyed with his honors chem teacher and his counselor... when he went to his counselor and asked whether he should switch to regular chem (*before* the deadline, when he could have switched without penalty), the counselor passed the buck back to the honors chem teacher, who prevaricated and refused to make a recommendation either way, other than to tell James where he needed more focus.

[dawnd.livejournal.com]

Mmm. Well, that IS annoying. In that case, he needs to tough it out, one way or another. Tutoring might help. But in some ways, he might do better to actually FAIL the class, and then take it over. I don't know what their rules are about it, but sometimes it's better to do that than, for instance, to squeek by with a D or even a C, which is immutably on one's record. It may be time to have another conversation with the counselor, though I have to say that the first one you relayed doesn't give me a lot of hope that the counselor will do better in this situation.