Originally Posted by
popeye2
I have tied a few priviliges( including hunting) to my son maintaining his grades.
The better grades he gets the more things he can do, the lower his grades are, the less he can do, which includes loosing certain priviliges entirely.
In my house, any grade below a "C" is unacceptable except in certain situtaions.
My son really struggled in a chemistry class during one grading period last year and I was well aware that he was struggling, but he got thru it with a "D", I treated it like a "C" because honest hard effort does count in my book.
I could accept honest hard effort if he could show it to me. I haven't seen it yet. The turd cost me 25 dollars last year for beakers he and a friend broke in science class because he wouldn't listen to the teacher and leave them alone. I took it out of his hide. He found out how to scrub toilets and floors for a few weeks.