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Hi,

I have just had parent's evening for my DS1.

DS1 is in YR2 very smart and operates above national average - does work with YR3 and his reports have always been great. But last night the school tells me that he isn't trying in class and hasn't progressed how they would like him to progress. He does the bare minimum in the classroom and pieces of work assigned to him in the classroom are never completed in the allocated time and they expect someone like him to have completed.

So I am wondering what the school should be doing to engage him more and get him to do required tasks, as they never answered this as there is never enough time to cover what you want answered and I have to go back in and make a second appointment.

Thanks in advance.

Its not very good to go into a parents' evening and be confronted with a totally new problem that you never knew existed before. There isn't enough time to discuss it fully and it just leads to a lot of worry. If the teacher was very concerned, she should have raised it with you before then. Make an appointment to go back and discuss it further and then you can guage how serious it might be and what they are doing to rectify it.

It is not unusual for bright kids who find work easy to develop a lazy attitude to work. After all why bother trying hard if you can get good marks hardly trying at all. But it is important to try to put it right.

To me this is a sign of the times - my son is underachievingso what are the school doing wrong? 30 years ago it would have been my son is underachieving at school, what do i do to make him work?

They probably are doing things to try and help but ned your support too.

The feminization of education makes it terribly dull and uninspiring for boys.