Anyone else with year 11 dc who needs a rocket up their arse re gcse's?

[Millicano]

My lovely boy is so laid back he would fall over. All subjects reports are saying that he is only working when absolutely forced to. Scraping through with the bare minimum work. All saying what a lovely chap he is. Followed by 'However......'

I have tried to explain that he will need B or above to do A levels in whichever subjects he chooses to study further.

Cue 'yeah I will be fine, don't worry'

BUT I AM WORRYING!!! i am beside myself with it all. He is fast running out of time.

Suggestions please.

oh well done bruffin boy! That must be a relief for you.

an him, he just couldn't understand how he got a C when he got 22/30 in the exam and his friend with 25/30 got an A or A*

DS1 is now in y12, and tells me he's revising daily for the AS modules he'll be sitting in Jan. Four hours a day was what we agreed but I suspect fb gets a good session as well.
This time last year, he was telling me 'it'll be fine' and I was tearing my hair out.
He ended up with I think 7 As, missing a couple more by literally 1 or 2 points. Not brilliant - certainly not fulfilling his potential but enough to keep him at his grammar school for sixth form.
I've just asked him if there was anything we could've said to persuade him to revise more. The answer: 'no,' because, no matter what we said, 'they were just GCSEs.' In fact, it seems some of his teachers declared they'd never been asked for their GCSE results - as, he insists, did DH .
I think I'd agree - there's nothing anyone can do, they have to stand or fall by themselves at this age, and the stubbornness is unbelievable.

He does seem a different person in so many respects now, though - I think mixing with the 'mature' y13 helps, and studying subjects he's interested in and in more depth seems to be engaging him much more.
I seem to be rambling now, but I suppose the crux of it is that you have my deepest sympathy, but you really have little or no influence on outcomes here.

I have 24 I am accountable for and they are terrifying me! But you know, from a teacher's perspective I have felt convinced every year that my students would all crash and burn. Many lazy students, especially the ones you can describe as 'lovely, but...' pleasantly surprise me, every year.

Disclaimer: they do actually have to do SOME work

We have decided to with a bit of bribery and corruption and getting Ds a bose speaker if he gets his targets. This will be his birthday present. Dh has written a contract for him.
Ds went out and bought a diary and has planned every day until he goes back. He had a p/t job and he is working every day next week and every day until Xmas.
Been good today and he had done a biology paper, but has now playing guitar hero for 5 mins
Then apparently doing ict and off to work. He has turned off Facebook as well.

It has now been two weeks since ds1 broke up from school. He has part 1 of his As biology in a week and a half and he has done 2 hours work in total. He spouted a whole load of sh*t about how well he wanted to do, how he really didn't want to have to retake in June and yet he has done nothing. Who thought it would be a good idea for exams to be held after the Xmas and New Year celebrations? I want to scream!!

Whilst I'm ranting..... why can kids not just have the school holidays off? My other two have loads of homework as well. Doesn't anyone relax and have fun anymore?

Rant over.......