The grades

Riley rocks with energy and excitement about school. Trevor loves school but just doesn't do the work. He showed me a great review test in math. he had a perfect score. I pulled out $5 and told him to go print out his grades off the computer. He didn't come back. The next thing I hear is Tom yelling at him. He had left the screen open and his father had seen the overall grades. Three weeks into the last semester and Trevor has three Fs. Missing assignments across the board. He is in homework club twice a week. He still can't get the work handed in.

He tells us he has no work at night when we ask. I go through the list of classes. But when he pulls up the classes on line, they are all missing work. Tom has agreed to let me start him in eighth grade again. A move supposedly takes away three months of education. Trevor is at the very young end of his class with an August birth date. He can easily be held back age wise.

The councilor said he was marginal emotionally as far as not feeling stigmatized by being held back, retained being the technical term. He sees himself as being big and being even bigger if he is still in eighth grade next year. If we lived in Oklahoma, he wouldn't have been able to start kindergarten when he did. You have to be 6. Once we decide what to do, depending on his final grades, we will play up the positives for him so he can see the advantages.

The house we bid on shows pending, so they are treating it like we will get it. Hopefully we will hear something next week from their bank, approving our offer.

I called to confirm district boundaries on the schools the boys would be attending. I knew there would be a football summer camp. I wanted to get Trevor set up, so he wouldn't miss it. They are sending the sports package to us so I can get Trevor's physical taken care of down here where we have a doctor.

The bank on our house wants us to raise the price to their recommended value of $289,000. They wont budge on the price, though it is above what we owe including realtor sales costs. Since I don't want to move until school is out in June, I don't mind. They are being silly with our house. It is a flag lot, and the house in front of us is listed and abandoned for $259,000. Who would want ours for $30,000 more, when they could have the house with street appeal for less.

Just in case the house we offered on has stinkers for a bank also, I am watching the other houses we looked at. None of them are moving either. The only houses moving are the ones on our old block. Location location location. I wish there was something for us there.

Tom suggested after we get this big house, we bid again on the dive. If we close with enough time, and it is still available, I would love that. We would have a place to live while we consider and plan our dream location. That would be heavenly. We could rent out the dive and take our time.