Inescapability

Yesterday, I and the world's perhaps not the most perfect student were called to a meeting at his school. It was his Swedish teacher who had asked for a meeting, and not digitally but physically! I had a big lump in my stomach when I left for the meeting. The offspring was just as nervous, if not more so.

After the meeting we were both in a daze, but I have to give her credit for a well prepared meeting with useful information. In addition, Junior got a lot of homework that he has to do during the winter break.

Junior who has ignored Swedish because quote "I won't stay in Sweden so I have absolutely no use for it" unquote understood after the meeting that he has to improve his performance radically in the next 18 months, if for nothing else, he needs the points from the subject to his future university applications.

Given that he is improving his grades in Maths HL, Chemistry HL, Physics HL and English this semester, I know it's just attitude and not a learning problem.

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