I have a little boy who does NOTHING. Like literally does nothing all day long. UNTIL everyone leaves for specials then he gets everything done in like 7 minutes! So he is very capable of doing the work he just doesn't. To make it better he says "Miss Hansen" 1,000,001 times a day! When we put a note in his planner yesterday he said his mom hit him in the stomach. So now we don't want to send notes home because he gets beaten but he does nothing! So how do you motivate him? Well we attempted to bribe him with a toy car (loves cars) and maybe it worked a little but he still got close to nothing finished!
I feel like he is just going to sit here all year then end up repeating next year. What a waste of time for him, his family, and his teachers!
-Frustrated Miss Hansen
This is frustrating indeed! One of the best lessons you will learn is never to view a student as a waste of time. He needs positive adults in his life, and it doesn't sound like he gets that at home. He needs you to believe in him. :)
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