Hiding Homework

Cathy - posted on 09/21/2011

Thanks all for your suggestions. They do have online access to teachers and assignments. Would you believe that with further digging on my part, they didn't even have him tagged in "the system" as having a 504 plan. Oh, little did they know what a can of worms they were opening up with me!! I have called the assistant principal, the principal, and left a message with pupil services and student support at the school board office. Nine weeks into the school year and he isn't receiving the basics - preferential seating in class, extra time to do assignments, pull-outs for testing, I could go on! Gosh, thanks for letting me vent. It just feels so frustrating that I have to go through the same process every year. It's not like we're changing school districts every year or anything. I don't understand why it's such a chore!!

Penny - posted on 09/21/2011

I hired a tutor for my daughter, she responds so much better with one on one help. It helped her because she knew that someone was coming to help her with it. She is overwhelmed at school everyday, but knowing someone was going to help with her homework did not make her feel overwhelmed. Need to find someone who would best fit your child, if he likes calmness in people, find someone like that, if likes someone all hyper and outgoing, find a tutor like that. This person could be his homework friend, hope this helps.

Kathy - posted on 09/20/2011

We have had that problem in my house. If you find homework that has not been done, he should be required to do it... even if it is late and the teacher won't accept it... then he has to turn it in to you. He may get the idea and start doing his homework instead of hiding it, but even if he doesn't, he will at least be more prepared for test since he did the work. We also monitor our kid's grades online (not sure how many school districts offer this). If a kids gets a 0 they have 1 day to follow-up on it.. turn the assignment in late, etc. After that, if it remains a 0 they are grounded from electronics for a day or more. We have 5 kids ages 15-20 (18 year old with ACC; 20 year old with PDD-NOS & dsypraxia, 15 year old with ADHD) so at one point that is 5 kids in 8th thru 12th grade so we needed some structure and consistency, It is still a battle with one of the ones in college now (who use to hide homework) but he is doing better. Keep after it... eventually it will stick.

Amy - posted on 09/20/2011

another thought, some school districts post assingments on line on their web sites!

Andrea - posted on 09/20/2011

ugh! I sooo had and still have this issue! What I did was e-mail the teachers about how he 'kept forgetting' his homework and what they have done to help (and have actually added this service to his IEP) is the teacher/intervention specialist that is with him in his very last class of day reviews his agenda and makes sure he has all his homework is written down and if he doesn't, she writes it down for him. That took care of half the problem, the other problem was that it may have been written down but the books/folder/worksheet never made it home! So, I don't know if your child's school is the same way but his school is open till 9pm and if he doesn't have his assignment we have gone up there many times and I make him go get it. Make him accountable for his actions! Even if your school not open late, they are usually there for atleast an hour after school so check his homework folder right away when he gets home that way if you have to head back you can. Since he realized that forgetting it at school only takes away from fun time because we have to go back to school and get it, his memory has miraculously gotten better :)
Hope this helps!

Katherine - posted on 09/19/2011

Maybe some kind of reward system would work. Tell him if he doesn't hide his homework he can get something special. Most of the time this works.