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With a 1.222 GPA, I'm glad to see this Mom taking steps to get her son motivated, but are her tactics acceptable? What would you do differently?
"A frustrated mother in Florida is using some tough love to push her teenage son to get better grades.
Ronda Holder forced her son, James Mond III, to stand on a Tampa Bay street corner with a sign stating:
"I DID 4 Questions on my F-Cat AND Said I Wasn't Going to Do it!" said the sign, written in black marker on a large piece of paper hanging around the 15-year-old's neck. "GPA 1.22... Honk if I NEED [an] Education."
The 33-year-old mother said she wanted to embarrass her child into taking his education seriously.
"You take the phone. You take things from them... It don't work," Holder told Fox 13 News in Tampa Bay. "So embarrassing is the best thing. He don't like to get embarrassed."
She plans to make him continue standing on the corner every day until his grades improve." (More at link)
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/02/21/2011-02-21_florida_mom_uses_humiliation_to_get_teen_son_to_do_better_in_school.html
"A frustrated mother in Florida is using some tough love to push her teenage son to get better grades.
Ronda Holder forced her son, James Mond III, to stand on a Tampa Bay street corner with a sign stating:
"I DID 4 Questions on my F-Cat AND Said I Wasn't Going to Do it!" said the sign, written in black marker on a large piece of paper hanging around the 15-year-old's neck. "GPA 1.22... Honk if I NEED [an] Education."
The 33-year-old mother said she wanted to embarrass her child into taking his education seriously.
"You take the phone. You take things from them... It don't work," Holder told Fox 13 News in Tampa Bay. "So embarrassing is the best thing. He don't like to get embarrassed."
She plans to make him continue standing on the corner every day until his grades improve." (More at link)
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/2011/02/21/2011-02-21_florida_mom_uses_humiliation_to_get_teen_son_to_do_better_in_school.html