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Originally Posted by Skunks
Rather than trying to trick, force, guilt-trip or coerce him, I encourage you to look for ways that the homework could actually be appealing. Education shouldn't be unpleasant.
And really, that's why American universities work at all (vs lower education): there is enough free choice and diversity of topics that people can find something they are interested in, and thereby keep themselves motivated. Very few people get a college degree in a topic they don't care about because they have to, and the few who do are the least happy. (The most happy, and I'd say most successful, are those who find something they love & in turn love learning about.)
Certainly, there's always some degree of bureaucratic bullshit to deal with in any school, but it shouldn't be embraced as the only way to do it.
I realize that's basically idealistic bullshit. Practical advice, then:
Find out why he doesn't do it. If it's boring, talk to the teacher about ways to keep him motivated, if he /is/ in honors classes and bored despite that. If it's too hard, find ways to make it easier.
If it's just that he's not interested in the topics, see if there isn't some way for him to have more control over what he's learning. (Life is long enough that nobody is going to suffer for not knowing particular factoids from highschool, & people learn better when they're interested, anyway.) In my personal experience, one of the cheaper thrills in an institution is to exist outside the guidelines: special projects/privileges, different subjects.
School exists to teach, not assign homework & then get penalized for not doing it. As the parent, it's your power &, I would argue, right to make the school or school district give your son something educational to do.
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Yes. we have met with the old superintendant; he left, the current superintendent is leaving after 5 years......he was a self promoting beaurocrat in the worst way..and I am being kind.
Soon enough, we will be done with high school and this will just be a memory; albeit not the best one; teen years are damn hard...I do recall them.....and he has a lot of backbone and smarts, it should serve him well if he gets some common sense and that the future is today when you are a teen. I had family problems and $$$ problems when I was his age...you don't even want to know, but he has two loving parents who would give their lives for him...he is a WANTED child.
Planned Parenthood.....where it's at.