Home | How It Works | Stats Login | Register         Case: 7th grade, again I have a student in my internship class who is in 7th grade for the 3rd time. His parents are divorced, he lives with dad. He has no interest in doing the work and has no issues telling the teachers that he is not going to do the assignment. He is not really a behavior problem. Dad is aware that he is on track to fail, again. His response was to the tune of, I guess he will be in 7th grade again. This boy will be 16 in a grade with 12 year old classmates. Solution: (Rates are posted for this solution!) It sounds like there is not much support from the father and he does not care if his son does well, so why should the son care if he does? i would try to encourage the student and provide that support that is obviously lacking in their life. Perhaps providing a reward system for completed work could be helpful. Maybe, at first, just grading the work on completeness instead of accuracy and then moving into that when the student is consistently turning in assignments.                 Rating The suggested solution is respectful of the individual (student) Yes The suggested solution is relevant to the case Yes The suggested solution is reasonable (easy) for the teacher to implement Yes The suggested solution is likely to solve the problem/issue Yes The suggested solution is original Yes Comments: Rewards work well Sounds like he's had enough negative Rated On: July 8, 2016 3:40 am Rated By: eHebah