My son is in year 10. He absolutely HATES, HATES!!! school and eveything about it apart from being with friends.
Outside of school he is fine , follows our rules , doesn't get into trouble, has a lot of friends and is popular, he is a nice person, adults and children of all ages enjoy his company and he would make a fantastic pe teacher or something like that.
But .....he is going to fail all of his gcses and even potentially be suspended etc before then if he carries on the way he is going. He is quite a negative, insecure person, and as the years have gone on hes been put in lower and lower sets and now he is in bottom set for everything which he is embarrassed about. He genuinely finds the work difficult. Instead of knuckling down and trying his best for the last 2 years of school hes decided hes going to act the clown, not do any home work or revision and gets in to trouble everyday for messing about.
How do we help him with this situation? When we try to talk to him about it he doesnt want to listen . I know it's because hes overwhelmed and thinks hes going to fail so what's the point?
His teachers rightly so are sick of him so are not sympathetic. Plus he doesnt tell them or show them hes overwhelmed.
My other kids aren't like this and my husband and I were straight A students so find it hard to relate.
How can we help him and does he have a chance to turn this around once he leaves school?