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Help! My Middle School Student is Earning Poor Grades!-Three Tips to Improve Academic GradesIt is not uncommon for students who earned passinggrades in elementary school to find themselvesoverwhelmed and over worked in middle school. Thelevel of academic responsibility increases with each year of schooling, but the leap from elementary to middleschool creates the biggest challenge. Curriculum becomes more in-depth as the academic pace accelerates.This combination along with newfound socialconnections leaves many students struggling and many parents frustrated.Follow these three simple habits at home to help regaincontrol of the situation:1.Organization is KeyAs simple and unrelated as many people feel thiscomponent is, it is critical to academic success. Beyondthe obvious and overstated, have a specific spot for homework assignments to be completed. The next step tothis process is rarely mentioned; put the homework, books, teacher notes, notebooks etc, in the book bag atnight.Many students stumble into class each morning half awake only to find the work they spent time on the night before is still sitting on the dinning room table.When this happens these assignments are consideredmissing, incomplete, or late. All of which put a lower grade in the gradebook. Several days of this repeated pattern and any GPA would certainly be reduced.2.Be ProactiveUnlike the elementary years where teachers wereavailable to keep parents informed of progress, middleschool educators teach 100 or more students a day. The parent to teacher communication now falls mostly on the
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