Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: Just doesn't care There's a student who comes into class and just doesn't care. We try to get him to learn and do work but he says it's pointless. I discovered that this student doesn't have a father and his mother is on every drug imaginable. How can I expect this student to do any work at all or even give a shit about anything we do in school when he has to think about where he's sleeping at night. Everything I can teach him in a classroom means nothing, why should he even care? Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) I think it would be beneficial for you to have a one on one talk with the student and learn a little bit more about him. After that discussion I would try and relate lessons to him and that would actually benefit him in real life. Since it sounds like he has a rough home life I would provide meaningful incentives for completing his work such as you will buy him a nice lunch such as subway or buy him tickets to go see a movie, something that gives him something to look forward to.