Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
A Florida mom is forcing her son to stand on a Tampa Bay street corner this week and wear a sign to tell drivers about his poor school grades.
With his mother watching nearby, James Holder, 15, wears a sign that reads “I did four questions on my FCAT and said I wasn't going to do it…GPA 1.22…honk if I need education."
It'll be interesting to see how it works a few years from now.
I suspect that by the time he moves out, she'll rarely, if ever, see him again. I say this from experience of a schoolmate who will have absolutely nothing to do with his parents as a 40 year old. Their situation was quite similar.
Be that as it may, having kids myself, I can understand why she felt compelled to do that.
I don't believe I'd take such drastic measures, but I have been known to sit at the kitchen table for long periods of time in stony silence while my younger kids whined incessently about doing their homework.
It didn't take them very long to figure out it wasn't worth the breath they were wasting.
I don't think public humiliation is going to help the kid. She needs to find out what is causing him to do poorly in school and help him find a solution. It may come out that he just doesn't like school! There is nothing wrong with that. Rather than humiliate him at a vital stage in his life he should be shown options outside of education that can get him on a road to a decent life.
A Florida mom is forcing her son to stand on a Tampa Bay street corner this week and wear a sign to tell drivers about his poor school grades.
With his mother watching nearby, James Holder, 15, wears a sign that reads “I did four questions on my FCAT and said I wasn't going to do it…GPA 1.22…honk if I need education."
I can't believe this kid would mess around in the first place. His mother is obviously "spunky". I'm sure she gave him every opportunity to get things figured out. Go mom! Good for her for being a PARENT.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
