I need your advice please.
I have a year 10 son, who is doing averagely in most of his subjects. He’s not particularly academic, but his target grades are 5-6 in almost all subjects. His school seems to have many behaviour issues, so a lot of classes are disruptive, and he seems to have a lot of cover teachers. I feel I need to help him outside of school.
We are a family that values education (both me and dh have degrees and good jobs, and dh has continued studying - for various work exams - pretty much ds’s whole life. He knows our jobs - and therefore standard of living - is down to us working hard and getting good jobs). However, he doesn’t seem interested in achieving anything for himself. At February half-term, I sat down with him and we looked at the exam boards for all the exams he’s taking and noted what was required. We made a timetable and he promised to do 1 hour every night to solidify what he knows. I have bought the recommended text book for each subject. (His school doesn’t set much homework, if any, so I thought 1 hour a night is not unachievable).
However, we are now at Easter holidays and he has hardly done anything. Just argued with me. This holiday I signed him up to some online revision, which he has done without too much argument. It seems he needs structured lessons to learn, rather than being able to just go through books himself. Obviously to get online teachers is extremely expensive. The next level is pre-recorded online teaching. Then there are the free resources on You Tube, but I am worried they require too much effort for my ds to work through
as they aren’t as structured.
I am aware that I am running out of time and just need to find a solution. Please can someone help me work out the best way forward? Any recommendations very gratefully received!