My daughter has recently been tested for a learning difference in math and language composition (verb, preposition, adverbs, nouns, etc.). She is currently in a Montessori school in sixth grade but will be attending a charter school in the fall because she needs one-on-one help...
My son just received three days in an alternative school for defending himself in a fight. What is upsetting me is that if he did not defend himself, he would be bullied. So what is a parent to do? What is right? Teach your child...
My child started middle school this year for sixth grade. He hates school now. That is all I hear. I have cried my heart out. He had a serious football accident the day before school started which put him out for three days. I assume...
I am having this problem with my son. He is performing with some teachers and not at all well with some. He used to be an excellent student in elementary school but I see his interest in school waning in middle school and it worries...
How do you handle returning to school after summer vacation when there was bullying (also called "hazing" nowadays) the previous year? How should this be handled if your seventh-grader never mentioned it when he was new in the previous year? But suddenly he...
I have noticed many mood swings in my 12-year-old daughter this year. They started toward the end of sixth grade and are continuing stronger and more frequently this year in seventh grade. It seems like her personality has changed so drastically. Her bad mood...
I have a question or concern with my son, who is in the sixth grade. Lately he has been unable to do his school work. He chooses not to do it. He constantly has to have someone standing over him to do his work. If...
My daughter is now 12, and she can only pay attention to reading if it's a magazine, directions, comics, etc. but rarely stories. She can read and understand modern girly books and she loves writing them too but when it comes to books such as...
Our problem is that one of my son's teachers is terrible about posting his grades online. Actually, she is extremely slow at grading papers and projects at all. So, he can look at most of his grades online and know up to the day what...
My son, who is a seventh-grader, is having problems in his math class. I know he doesn't understand some of the material. He also clashes with his math teacher. I have met with her. My son says she is mean and makes fun of students...
