Well, my 6th grade students are shocked when they find out the consequences for a grade lower than D around here - NO electricity, only for lights, and I think I could have done away with that.
No cell phone, no tv, no computer, no videos, no mp3 player, no cds - nothing other than lights and books and cleaning. NOTHING
It is hard on us too. But the kids learned and pulled up the grades.
Luckily I have not had any "hard core" kids. They would have lost more - what is more? No door to the bedroom, no bed frame, nothing but a dresser and a mattress - might have been an air mattress - but I was never tested that far.
Hopefully my dear daughter, in her last 2 years of HS will not force the issue. But there it is - I am meanest mom yet.
No cell phone, no tv, no computer, no videos, no mp3 player, no cds - nothing other than lights and books and cleaning. NOTHING
It is hard on us too. But the kids learned and pulled up the grades.
Luckily I have not had any "hard core" kids. They would have lost more - what is more? No door to the bedroom, no bed frame, nothing but a dresser and a mattress - might have been an air mattress - but I was never tested that far.
Hopefully my dear daughter, in her last 2 years of HS will not force the issue. But there it is - I am meanest mom yet.