disciplining a sophomore

[highland145]

Who do?

You do.

 

[lxskllr]

Maybe he has depression issues and needs some drugs, or has drug issues and needs to chill out.

 

[7window]

My father took me to work with him. I had to clean diesel engine parts. I got paid 7 bucks an hour. I was knee deep in gunk, acid, water, and who knows what.

A few months later after the horrible back breaking work with him as my supervisor he asked me if I wanted to work like that the rest of my life or get an education.

This is a good one. thanks

 

[Platypus]

His phone is the minutes so the usage is maybe 3 minutes a whole month.
1st semester is 3.0 gpa
He missed 12 homeworks since spring break between 3 subjects. gpa now is 1.2
video game is only on saturdays.
he spends most of the time at library studying.
He is good in studying on his own and very independent.
Lately just overwhelmed and procastinating.

You don't even have to be a sophomore to know that doesn't add up.

 

[Matthiasa]

Lol at taking away their stuff and trying to ground them.
You can try to do that stuff, but in the end if they want to have or do that stuff they will. It's hard to prevent someone from leaving even if you are home all day.
Oh yeah and hw is useless for the most part assuming we are talking about hs school, but even stuff of that level in college was useless as well so yeah. Fail either way.

Hint, not doing that stuff is generally normal, at most only a few do it and then the rest copy anyways. Would you rather him or her just copy someone else as that is what you are trying to do will lead to. It gets done they get as much out of it as not having done it.

Edit: Given suden drop in grades either they are depressed(most other things wouldn't cause a drop so fast) or hw is worth a huge part of the grade. Something simmilar happened to a friend of mine and their grades plummeted as well.

 

[slayer202]

obviously you have to beat him...

in all seriousness, sounds like bullshit to me.

 

[alfa147x]

His phone is the minutes so the usage is maybe 3 minutes a whole month.
1st semester is 3.0 gpa
He missed 12 homeworks since spring break between 3 subjects. gpa now is 1.2
video game is only on saturdays.
he spends most of the time at library studying.
He is good in studying on his own and very independent.
Lately just overwhelmed and procastinating.

I wonder wtf he's doing at the library

 

[slayer202]

You don't even have to be a sophomore to know that doesn't add up.

yeah, just doesn't make sense

 

[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

It's because hes afraid to tell you hes become homosexual.

 

[dabuddha]

No more video games period. And he aint studying at the library.

 

[SaDiZTiKStyLeZ]

I wonder wtf he's doing at the library

Jacking off to the thought of peoples feet.

 

[highland145]

My father took me to work with him. I had to clean diesel engine parts. I got paid 7 bucks an hour. I was knee deep in gunk, acid, water, and who knows what.

A few months later after the horrible back breaking work with him as my supervisor he asked me if I wanted to work like that the rest of my life or get an education.

This.

After I screwed around and graduated with a 2.3gpa in C.E. , I got to dig ditches for my plumber brother. He has a 10th grade education. 20/20 hindsight, I wish I had dug ditches before college.

 

[7window]

Maybe he has depression issues and needs some drugs, or has drug issues and needs to chill out.

No drugs or depression

Originally Posted by Platypus
You don't even have to be a sophomore to know that doesn't add up.
yeah, just doesn't make sense

I wish it was that easy.

 

[sonicdrummer20]

More Homework?

 

[sourceninja]

This is a good one. thanks

I'm serious about the gunk too. My first day I was given knee high rubber wading boots and was show to my station affectionately called "The Swamp".

The job consisted of taking parts from big piles stripped down from old engines and loading them by hand into carts, pushing said carts to the swap, loading up large baskets with parts (sorted by metal as putting steel in the aluminum basket would cause a acid explosion), then dropping the parts into giant boiling hot vats of acid, waiting a bit, pulling the baskets out and scraping and pressure washing the rest of the gunk off. Finally you hand carted the cleaned parts out to a shelving system for guys to rebuild motors out of.

Worst job of my life.

Also diesel fuel was not only a cleaner, but a antiseptic of choice

 

[7window]

No more video games period. And he aint studying at the library.

I think he goofs around a lot.

 

[eits]

Jacking off to the thought of peoples feet.

wow, talk about random

 

[Azraele]

he spends most of the time at library studying.

Lately just overwhelmed and procastinating.

How can he be spending most of his time studying and procrastinating at the same time?

 

[Platypus]

I wish it was that easy.

That reply doesn't make sense in response to my quote but it's pretty easy to figure out if he/she's dicking around at the library or actually working, or if he/she is even at the library at all.

 

[sourceninja]

How can he be spending most of his time studying and procrastinating at the same time?

Most likely he's not at the library.....

 

[alfa147x]

I think he goofs around a lot.

He should start studying at home with someone. Maybe he needs help staying focused. I highly doubt he's studying at the library...

 

[Gibson486]

I wonder wtf he's doing at the library

studying....


the human anatomy....

 

[7window]

How can he be spending most of his time studying and procrastinating at the same time?

I have a feeling that he goes to the library a lot and just sort of hang out instead of studying. He has his books open but I think he is doing other things.

 

[DesiPower]

WOW this is probably the fastest growing thread!!!

 

[7window]

He is not focus. He did the same last year and lost interest towards this time.