I was doing the weekly sweep of Ss's room. We take turns doing them every Friday when he is school. We have told him that we look through his room but I am not sure he truly believes us. We just want to make sure he isn't hiding he can hurt himself with.

The report just got emailed to our family email account. Ss at one point could not be bothered to give us anything from school so we get the reports emailed. Here is what he got. 65 in English, 71 in Math, 58 in Science and 63 in History. And the most infuriating part is the teacher's comments. All of them mentioned that he does excellent work in his assignments but leaves entire sections in his unit tests blank. He gets high 80's and 90's in assignments. They are the only things keeping him from failing. He knows the material. But he just sits there during test taking.

It was only a matter of time I feel. Ss finally snapped on a kid who was picking on him and they had a fight. The other kid actually ended up far worse with a bloody nose and black eye. Ss had some bruises. Both the boys were to be expelled. But my Dh went down and yelled at them a good bit because he told them to keep an eye on Ss but the teacher was letting the other kid pick on Ss during class. He threatened to sue and get the media involved and the school decided to suspend Ss for a week instead.

The dog has made some issues come up between the kids. Ss is refusing to share the dog with the other kids. He is only letting them play with the dog 30 minutes at the most then he takes her into his room. My Dh tried talking to Ss about it and Ss's response was that he did not want the dog to love my kids more than him, just like everyone else. He is very insecure so we thought we would give Ss some time alone with the dog and see that she will not leave him. After a few weeks we will make him share the dog more.