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Ride It Like You Stole It!
- Location
- South Manchester
Anyone else have them ?
9 year old daughter, great, get's it done as soon as she gets it.
11 years old son ~(coming upto SATS) get's more homework but, OMG, do we have a battle with him. He's a clever lad, but won't apply himself. Homework - we get strops, I can't do it, yadda yadda. Even sitting with him he has a paddy.
We even go to the library to do it. We also let him do 15 mins, then do his own stuff, ten back for more. This is the second day of the battle - we had it last weekend.
At present the teacher is putting them under pressure for the 'oh so important' (for the school) SATS. The high school doesn't take them into account, and only grades the students after their first year.
My daughter is quite rightly upset as we are waiting for son to complete, he even had the carrot of we'll get you a new bike if you rattle this off quickly, nope didn't work. Wife and daughter have gone to Wales for the evening and bank holiday now, as I can see this battle lasting at least all evening.
We've even said, OK, if you can't do it that's fine. He knows he can't as the teacher is a right battle axe.
Anyone got any good ideas, anyone else getting the same ?
God knows what it will be like at high school with MORE homework.
9 year old daughter, great, get's it done as soon as she gets it.
11 years old son ~(coming upto SATS) get's more homework but, OMG, do we have a battle with him. He's a clever lad, but won't apply himself. Homework - we get strops, I can't do it, yadda yadda. Even sitting with him he has a paddy.
We even go to the library to do it. We also let him do 15 mins, then do his own stuff, ten back for more. This is the second day of the battle - we had it last weekend.
At present the teacher is putting them under pressure for the 'oh so important' (for the school) SATS. The high school doesn't take them into account, and only grades the students after their first year.
My daughter is quite rightly upset as we are waiting for son to complete, he even had the carrot of we'll get you a new bike if you rattle this off quickly, nope didn't work. Wife and daughter have gone to Wales for the evening and bank holiday now, as I can see this battle lasting at least all evening.
We've even said, OK, if you can't do it that's fine. He knows he can't as the teacher is a right battle axe.
Anyone got any good ideas, anyone else getting the same ?
God knows what it will be like at high school with MORE homework.