The one thing I would like to say is I am disappointed in how long things have played out. Not just for us, but for my stepson as well.
When it comes to them saying, “Everything is fine.” Or “There’s nothing to worry about” …you start to question it more and more when new information keeps coming to light.
My stepson’s last day of school was June 13th, so besides the Promotion he had with the other 59 kids, his report card came out too.
As you know from my past blogs, he has had issues in some of his classes, though his mom always denied that there were any problems. That is even after teachers would reach out with concerns.
My stepson has not been thriving in school since he has only been in the care of his mother for the last year. And when I say not thriving, I mean his grades were not the greatest. One F and two Ds. Is that really thriving in school?
I’m a little disappointed because before the colluding, my stepson was a very smart kid for his age. The summer before I married his dad, he worked on these projects of reading about Rome and writing a paper on them. He found it so fun to do and then present to others to receive points. You sadly ask him today and he will probably try to deny it all even though we still have the book he read and the research papers he presented it to us. But like I said, he would claim we are the delusional ones to think he did something like that.
But seeing his grades this time around and seeing the two Ds and the one F…it made us all very upset. And what’s even more crazy is this is the first time my husband’s ex-wife did not share the report card with us. After seeing how his grades were, we figured she is trying to hide them from us, so we do not see that he did not thrive in school either while under just her care. She’s also not sharing the report card with us because if the courts or even the G.A.L. saw his grades and then saw the text messages, they might, hopefully, question it as well.
The classes he failed in (or almost failed in) were the classes the teachers kept reaching out to us about. Spanish – F / Science – D- / Algebra – D.
Spanish and Science were the teachers that kept reaching out. We did not hear a whole lot from his Algebra teacher. Minus those classes he did do pretty decent in his other classes.
Our concern is with how enmeshed their relationship is and how close they are as BFFs, will she even give him a consequence for him not doing well in school, or will she just brush it aside?
We also saw on the report card that he missed 11 days of school. We did receive a letter a little while back of him only missing 9…but 11? And the funny thing is, there isn’t much on this co-parenting app of when he missed school and the reasoning as to why he didn’t go to school. Per the court order that she likes to throw in my husband’s face, she is still supposed to keep him in the loop with things even if she is vague with her summary…like she always is.
It’ll be interesting to know what her reaction would be if she found out we knew just how not so well his grades were. It’ll also be interesting to see what her excuse would be because unfortunately, she can’t blame us anymore when we haven’t been in the picture to be the ones affecting his grades and behavior.
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