Live2Ride Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 So I've called a mandatory meeting with the parents of my third student. The child has been living with her mother and showed up to school for less than two weeks total out of 5...sick, appts, early pick ups, etc. It's rediculous. No follow through at home, always excuses. So before I will continue we meet. My original job was to help her get through her grade level. Now I think it's just to babysit her. She's barely passing 4 subjects and has 8 weeks left with me. This child does not need to be mainstreamed next year either, but I don't plan on having her back this fall because the parents aren't cooperative enough. Then afterwards I get to head to get our taxes done....yay me! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PentecostalMom Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 I homeschooled another student while we were living overseas. Her dad brought her on time, was she was belligerent and disrespectful....then she started stealing from me. She left quickly. It stinks that they don't care enough about her education to see this through! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flowing Brook Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 I hope your meeting goes well. It is frustrating when you can't get people to do what they are supposed to do. I hope you are able to get through to the parents. Taxes ugh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parrothead Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 Let us know how the meeting goes. I'm curious about what the parents say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2myboys Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 Best of luck with the meeting. That sounds like a frustrating situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fraidycat Posted March 28, 2013 Share Posted March 28, 2013 Good luck with the meeting. And hopefully you get a nice big tax return to help turn your day around! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Live2Ride Posted March 29, 2013 Author Share Posted March 29, 2013 So the meeting went fairly well I think. I did lay some things down that I expected of them and they asked a couple of things from me. We are going to continue on until summer starts. Then we will break, reevaluate if needed and resume next fall. They really do want to work with me, but we all needed to come to an agreement about it. They do feel this is the best place for her and agree that I need to be kept abreast of what is going on with her mentally and emotionally. She will not be able to advance into highschool at this point anyways. She's not remotely ready (in many ways) and we all agree that it isn't really whats necessary for her right now. She needs to find some successes in her schooling and feeling behind is not going to do her any good. We need to approach this from a: 'You are where you need to be at this time' and leave it at that. I like having her here. She's a good kid having some serious issues, some of which she can't control and she doesn't have enough maturity to understand how to handle some of these things... Oh and as for the taxes, well we'll get something back this year. I think it'll be enough to buy a couple of things we've been wanting :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jean in Newcastle Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Sounds like a good resolution for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa in Australia Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 glad to hear there was a positive outcome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom2myboys Posted March 29, 2013 Share Posted March 29, 2013 Glad to hear that they are going to be more supportive. Hope it works out well for you all. And hooray for some money back! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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