You know how I started my last post (about Zane) with the words "This kid. He is amazing and frustrating all at once!"?
Same.
In different ways.
Jaxen's parent-teacher conference included 5 of his teachers and me, sitting in desks in a circle in his homeroom classroom. Not intimidating at all, right? Ha! His teachers were so kind and had many good things to say about Jaxen. The two consistently good things I heard from each of them were 1) Jaxen is respectful and 2) he is smarter than his grades reflect.
The takeaways are 1) Jaxen rushes through his work to get done and move on to the next thing, which is usually free time, 2) he is easily distracted, and 3) he is disorganized which leads to losing items and not turning in assignments.
Jaxen loves middle school. I mean, loves it. He can talk forever about it. He should seriously be their ambassador 😀. If I were to ask him how things are going at school he would tell me so much...but none of which include missing assignments, losing his things or the fact that he never (ever) has a pencil with him. I'm pretty sure Jaxen has single-handedly used up the "extra stash" of pencils from every 6th grade teacher. Now that I'm aware - I'm sending Jaxen to school with no less than 72 pencils! Haha!
I am so glad he loves school...but there are some areas where he needs to focus more on. And we will try to help him with that. The problem is that he thinks everything is "fine" and he does not need/care/want to do more...? I'm still trying to figure this out. There are many times when I have said something and his reply is along the lines of "I don't need to / It's fine / I don't have to do it...the teacher did not say to" and so on.
I know he is capable. He is so smart. He is creative. He is funny. He loves to help and be in charge of things. He will get there. Middle school is a big adjustment... we are only one-quarter of the way through this first year!
And there are no random pictures of Jaxen to go along with the post because, well, he is in middle school now and has no desire to have his picture taken!
Isn't it amazing how they can think everything is great then the teachers blow our minds when they tell us how disorganized our child is. We know they are disorganized at home, we have to remind them to do things like brush your teeth, wash your hands, but we expect them be organized at school so they don't embarrass themselves. Apparently they don't mind being embarrassed.
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