Here we are...2 six weeks until the end of the school year. DH has said all school year that he would not pay for SD to attend summer school again this year (he just paid for her to go to summer school last summer). But, he found a way to pay for it in a round about way. Yesterday, he informed me that he told SD that she would pay for summer school herself. How? Her savings account. Her savings account that only he and his parents deposit money into. Her savings account that she doesn't have access to and never thinks of and therefore, doesn't seem real to her. So...to me..he is still paying for it.

It's not that I mind paying for summer school. DH and I recently agreed to pay for SS's summer school, after telling him that we wouldn't pay for him to go to summer school either. We found out late last year (November 2010) that SS is dyslexic. This past six weeks was his first six weeks taking a dyslexia class at school and his grades have improved drastically! He IS still failing math (just barely), but we can see how hard is trying and his teachers have told us how hard he is working in class, too. For that...I think he has earned the right to go to summer school.

I do not support the idea of letting a child slack off for an entire frickin school year, then let them go to summer school to pass to the next grade. I don't know about summer schools in other areas, but ours is a joke. If the kid shows up every day...they pass. How is this right? How can a child that fails a class all damn year magically pass for 6 weeks of summer school and move up to the next grade? And when I say fail all damn year...I mean fail every frickin six weeks for an entire frickin school year!!! Benefit of the doubt...yes, SD does have problems with math...has her whole school career. That is one class she has failed all school year....sure, she needs help, but she refuses to attend tutoring. She is also failing reading. The girl knows how to read and understands what she is reading. This year long failure is laziness. And no...she doesn't also have dyslexia because reading USED to be her strongest subject. She just refuses to do the accelerated reading/testing (that is required of each student) this year...and it's a major part of her reading grade this year.

Saying all this to say that my major "pissed off'edness" is with DH. He is the one that is making this possible. I can't believe that, as a parent, he is ok with this. He is only setting her up to fail even more next year. How can he possibly believe that sending her to summer school is a good thing? I hate to say it, but I have lost some respect for him. I just don't understand how he sees this as ok. This is a man who graduated top of his class in school. This is a man who only asked his children to do their best in school. This is a man who preaches the value of a good education....how can he now think this is ok? It literally makes me sick to my stomach to see how he is shafting his kids....

Am I wrong for this? Someone please tell me if I am looking at this wrong.