(Originally posted to Mom on a Narrow Path blog on Weebly, now deleted.)
Well my son failed nearly every core subject first semester. And he's not off to a good start in second semester. 7th grade is apparently too hard. We've got a plan to fix the grades, but we'll see how well he can stick to it.
While I feel like a failure, he feels worse, but when it boils down to it, I cannot complete his schooling for him. He must take ownership of it himself and experience accountability for his actions (and inaction!) I just don't understand.
I thought we started off the semester pretty well. I looked ahead in the courses to determine what we needed to do for each course. We started an experiment with an egg for Science, learning about osmosis in cells. Then the teacher dropped the assignment after we had all the data collected and were getting ready to put together the portfolio. The only upside is that the teacher will accept it as extra credit, which he sorely needs.
Thankfully, Math is currently covering Geometry. This I'm good at and he loves.
Language Arts is always a struggle. He reads well and can tell you what he read, but explaining or expressing deeper meanings within text is nearly impossible for him.
In Social Studies, his course is expanding on Economics from the previous semester's unit. He did rather well originally; we'll have to see how it progresses.
~Mom on a Narrow Path
