Even in the darkness light dawns for the upright, for the gracious and compassionate and righteous man...He will have no fear of bad news;his heart is steadfast, trusting in the Lord.

Psalm 112:4,7

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Kris
God bless you and yours!
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teen weight 250
starting weight 169
CURRENT WEIGHT: 162.2
happy weight 155-159

I really needed this verse right now.......My husband and I are stressed about the meeting we have today, we are meeting after school with my son's teachers and counselor. My son is not feeling good, he worked hard to get out of an IEP (for communication, my son doesn't communicate very much at school, and can be slow at getting his work done, yet he is very bright) at the elementary school level, he does not want to go back to that under any circumstances. So, we need a good answer, a very good non demanding action plan that we can fully use, without fear of someone dropping the ball.

Perseverence, thank you for any prayers.

Annette

We're keeping you in our prayers...let us know ******************
Kris
God bless you and yours!
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teen weight 250
starting weight 169
CURRENT WEIGHT: 162.2
happy weight 155-159

Thank you.........I am not really sure how to feel after the meeting, I guess it went okay. Some things were frustrating, but, I know my son can really frustrate teachers and it is very frustrating to me when teachers/counselors remind me of how frustrating it is for them.......which is just completely frustrating. So, I guess time will tell, and we will take this one step at a time.

Thank you again,

Annette

It's so hard with our kids isn't it? we love them so much, and would remove every hardship if we could for them. My daughter does great in school...ever since fourth grade. She failed grade 3 when we switched her from English to French school. I remember how devastating that was for me... My son Failed his first term in grade 7 this year. I was really afraid that they were going to fail him. there is no reason for it, other than he was dis-interested! I follow him closely now, and it seems he's gotten a bit better. I have had to learn just to give it to God and keep reminding myself that I cannot be there with him at school, nor can I bear the responsibility or consequences of all his actions But, believe me, I know it's hard. I fought back the tears at the last teacher meeting.

Verse for today:
We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing;persecuted, but not forsaken;struck down, but not destroyed.

2Corinthians 4:17-18******************
Kris
God bless you and yours!
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teen weight 250
starting weight 169
CURRENT WEIGHT: 162.2
happy weight 155-159

Thank you so much for being so open and honest.......so many times, I just hear about how gifted everyone's kids are, and how they are and get straight A's.........but that doesn't really help to hear when we are stressed and trying to figure our kids out. In the United States, kids are not held back for failing.....is it the same in Canada? If my son were to get graded for last trimester, I am pretty sure that he would get close to only failing grades. He missed a lot of school, he did get work done, but not all. We were expecting failing grades, but I think part of yesterday was to break it to us whether or not to give him F's and at this point, we were not caring because it had already been broke to us, and we had to make the decision whether or not to stress him with the work, or to just turn over a new leaf with this term and plug ahead and get well. It won't impact his high school GPA.......so it is a tough decision.

Biggest decision: how to go about this next term, I can't worry about the past. The right action plan is what everyone is concerned about.

Our school system is a bit weird.Every province is different. In Quebec they divide it into sessions of two years. So they give the kids two years to master certain things. If at the end of that cycle they haven't mastered it, they hold them back one year, but only once generally. After that they put them into a 'special' class where they are supposed to be able to catch up and hopefully go back to regular classes.
At the end of last year my son had done very badly. He was being intimidated a lot, and he just gave up toward the end of the year. At the start of this year they had wanted to put him in the special class. They hadn't even consulted me at all. I went to the school and said if they didn't put hiim in regular, I would change schools or homeschool him. The special class is supposed to be for catching up, but having taught at that school for four years, I know how it is really. The kids don't have time to catch up because they lump all the kids together. There are so many kids with discipline problems in those groups that usually the teacher spends all his or her time dealing with that and not helping kids to catch up. I've seen basically good kids start in that class in September and by Christmas they are swearing, smoking ... and worse! There is no way I could handle that. Being Christians, our kids are sheltered. They don't swear, don't go out at night, etc. Putting my son into that environment would have been like throwing him to the wolves.

He's doing ok now, but I really have to stay on top of it. He has the ability, but lacks the motivation. We had him tested this year for attention deficit, but he doesn't have it. (which I thought because he is more than able to concentrate when it is something that interests him). He doesn't have any friends really, and is a little overweight and awkward. Put all that together and school is not a pleasant experience for him. ******************
Kris
God bless you and yours!
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teen weight 250
starting weight 169
CURRENT WEIGHT: 162.2
happy weight 155-159

Our sons sound very similar! My son just tends to get stressed, and will shut down in a bad spot. We are having issues with over crowding due to budget cuts, it is not good.