Spare the Rod?

[Pico and ME]

I like the t-shirt idea, but highly doubt that the girl actually wore it while at school...she definitely had a spare in her backpack. Making her post it on her Facebook page? IDK, it might have an impact.

The belt whipping? Probably way too late for the offense. The parent should have know problems were occurring much sooner than the report card. So yeah, bad parent. But she should not have been arrested! That girl is lost forever now.

I had a similar problem with my stepson...he did bring home a card that had all 'f's. It wasn't entirely surprising at the time because we had been struggling with him for months and months before, but it was a rude awakening that nothing we were doing was getting to him at all. I did change our attack angle and it improved his school performance pretty quickly. He was a social butterfly (like this girl), so we had him bring home a paper with teachers signatures that he turned in his homework and maintained a C average. If he missed just one signature or didn't have the paper, he was grounded for that night from everything. Seriously, it worked like a charm.