Re: How to help a 2nd grader?
Again, I feel strongly that encouraging the positives will help tremendously. With the report card thing...reward him for improvement and growth, not just the letter grades and percents. If he has learned and shown improvement in areas, concentrate on those things. As far as the homework, I think it is a bit rediculous for any grade K-5 to count homework as part of a students grade, they should be measuring the progress and mastery of skills at those levels...(if you want to shake the teacher up, ask her how many standards your son has mastered and how the homework pertains to his accomplishment of doing so...really screw it to her...but in a positive way...)