DH and I are just lost here. SS came to live with us just over a year ago. Prior to that, he was bounced around from school to school by his bm, as well as home to home. Obviously he was never taught that school mattered and that as a 14 year old school is his fricking JOB. He does NOTHING. He is failing 3 classes. We have been to the school so many times I can not even count to work out these issues. Every plan that gets put in place so that we KNOW what his assignments are, the kid figures out how to work around. Basically it endds up making us look like shitty parents when we are doing everything we can to fix things. He is now in a stable home, he is in therapy every other week. We check his homework site every day and he shows us papers, but apparently they are not ever getting handed in. The thing that really po's both of us is that he is getting a's and b's in classes he has an interest in. If he has no interest, he just thinks it is unimportant and doesn't have to do jack. The kid is JUST like his mother, which of course annoys me even more.

If any of you have a kid/step kid that has this school is bs attitude PLEASE tell me how you handle. I told dh today that I would be willing to get him a tutor every day for a couple of hours and make him spend even more time working...provided the pos that calls herself his mother actually start to give us some freaking money for CS. And not claim on her taxes when she hasn't paid a cent to support him.