Strong gpa, but maturity does not match gpa. He is doing terrible in ap gov to the point that I broke my promise to myself to not contact teachers this year to figure out if he was misleading me. I learned he had never approached the teacher once, teacher assumed the grade he was receiving was par for the course. I encouraged son to show that he cared, to talk to the teacher after class, establish rapport, study tips, maybe retake something. He claims he has been meeting with him.
The grade continued to slide for 4 weeks, so before break I emailed teacher and he tells me my son has still never approached him! The teacher went on to say he's too old for a parent to be involved (I agree). My son asked why I'm embarrassing him. Can someone explain why a 16-year-old who claims to have big college dreams would blow off a teacher and lie about it? This is shaping up to be a D+/C, he's never done worse than a B+.
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