Thanks for the suggestions/support. He really needed very little of this last year in 8th. (Except in his easiest class science.) And this year.. I did get the memo this spring to add the extra scaffolding but a bit too late. And I didn't quite figure out why we had the missing science labs until the past week.
Last night he told me he really has no idea how to study. Many of the kids is his classes were studying for weeks before finals but he is clueless what they do. He did very very little studying for the English & Social Studies class and Aced them with little effort (without needing all those outlines that didn't get finished correctly) and this makes it hard to teach these skills. I agree it really is a waste to study for days for no reason.
