Originally posted by cali
personally I would be pretty upset if my parents read my paper, I am a very privat person, and being as stubbern as I am there is no way I would fix it if my parents invaded my privacy and read it, yes it would hurt me in the long run, but being your sons age I can understand his point of veiw. just some insight from the other side lol personally if I notice things myself I will fix them myself, but if my mom read my essay and started complaining about mistakes I personally would be rather pissed.
True, but he is failing the class. When a teacher is concerned enough to call home and alert the parents, the time is now for action. One thing I didn't mention was that my son is very dyslexic. This is his first main-stream english class... last year his class had 7 (including him) kids and it was a remedial english class. He knows he needs us to help him. He knows that his vocabulary & sentence structure is far below what he should have. He knows that I am more than willing to help him revise and rework the paper so that it is in his own words, yet clean and ... well... readable.

He also knows that if he fails this class, then he will not be running track this season. This kid is a track superstar. He runs 6 to 10K marathons every other weekned and running is his life. Failing = no running. I think he's so upset at knowing this is IT. I think he thinks that his grade is so far gone that he won't be able to pull it up. I think that he'd embarassed that he's not "getting it". So, with that said, why the fighting us? You'd think he'd be begging for help... not leaving the house at midnight to sit in the cold. I tell you, he's just like his father!