Thanks.. The frustrating thing is he hasn't really been doing bad. Current grade is an A-. He gets 100% on tests. Just not the 96+ the school is requiring. Both DS & I don't really get along with this teacher. And I don't get the sense the teacher really pays attention to much more than the numbers. Class is mostly filling out worksheets. I am not the only one who had a problem with this particular "jump". One only needs B's to stay in honors, but needs almost "perfect" grades to move up.
Getting him to advocate for himself is difficult at this stage in his development for two reasons. 1) He is very quiet & shy. (He has improved drastically in the past two years but its still a work in progress.) 2) Middle school science has turned him off of science because it's not analytical enough.
