Yr7, not a natural student but works hard and does try.
Hates homework with a passion. I never made them do it in primary school as I personally don’t see the value at that age. This was his first term at secondary school and it’s been hard for him to keep on top of all his homework.
He had one subject where his homework was a term long project. This was made up of 5 tasks taking a few hours each. His first effort was terrible, really rushed and had hardly bothered. I sat down and talked to him about putting more effort in and taking pride in his work etc etc.
In the end he worked really really hard on his project. Over and above what needed to be done. I could see how proud he was when he showed me the finished project. He even bought a new binder for it out of his own money.
Due date was yesterday. When it got to the end of the lesson another girl put her hand up and said about their homework. The teacher, quoting from DS here, said “oh god yes the homework hahaha, um hands up if you have done it”. DS says maybe 6/7 people put their hand up. The teacher then just shrugged and said oh well don’t worry about it now, let’s see if we can do better on the next one” she then dismissed the class without taking the homework from the kids who had done it!
DS was really annoyed when he came home and said what’s the point in even doing it the teacher doesn’t even care. I know its end of term etc but AIBU to be fucked off with her lack of interest? Don’t bother setting homework if you don’t care about it surely?!