Gah, it's all a bit of a mystery.
Y7 boy, doing well enough but really putting MINIMUM effort into his homework. He's bright so coasts along. I'm split between trying to raise his aspirations so his effort scores move upwards, versus just leaving him to it - he is pretty organised and committed to doing his homework, he just does the minimum possible when I know he could achieve such a lot more. Should I just butt out? The thing I worry about is that school is so anonymous (which was clear from the review day) that unless he is pretty motivated to respond to feedback, he wont' do it, and the teachers won't otherwise be pushing him particularly...
And I have no idea about certain things to do with secondary school and who to ask - he missed a day or two last term because of illness and he ended up getting a detention because he hadn't realised there was homework while he was ill. Who is supposed to follow this kind of thing up? Is it his responsibility to find the teacher of missed classes? Or ask his friends? What about notes etc that he has missed?
I would also like to find out if there are recommended textbooks for different subjects (cos I'm fed up of him using bloody Wikipedia for all his 'research'!) but no idea how to go about finding out. My son just says 'dunno' when I ask if the teachers have recommended particular websites etc..