It’s Been a Great Week For You.
Written this past Saturday, and shoved under Dylan’s door, where it was subsequently read but otherwise ignored:
Dear Dylan,
Today is the conclusion of what was an incredibly good week for you. This week might have been the most successful I’ve seen in the past three years.
Your grades are – without any help from me – going from E’s to A’s in many classes. Your English grade jumped drastically after all your work on notecards. You have a B in there now! Your algebra grade went from an E to a C, and you still have to finish a test in there. You could have an A in that class! Your hard work is paying off. You have a HIGH B in Technology, and you could get an A in there, too! And your NSL grade is a VERY, VERY, VERY HIGH B – 87%! That’s an Honors class, so if you got an A in that… well, your Weighted GPA would jump a LOT.
This week, you also got an A on your Computer Science test: 23 out of 24 in a college-level class! While I always knew it was possible, I hadn’t seen you do it until this week. You are a brilliant human being. You put that brain into good use this week – and did your “job” (which is school) in a totally awesome way.
But your grades aren’t the only evidence. You did your 1.5-hour shifts of homework, mostly without complaining. You actually worked, even while you were singing. I don’t know how you do it, but I am not going to complain anymore about your singing. You can actually sing and work at the same time. You are an anomaly. (I may still complain when you play thrash metal.)
You came home with a ton of signatures this week. If you keep up this stuff, you will be off to North Carolina for a three-day weekend in May. [This is his “bonus” reward if he works hard and gets signatures.]
Equally important – maybe even more so for you – is that you wore your retainer eight days in a row. You may not know it, but I have been keeping track – and this is the first time in all of 2017 that you’ve worn it more than three days in a row. And you wore it for 8!!!!
I am really impressed with you. It’s been a great week for you, and if you keep it up, your grades will reflect it, your parents will get off your back, and you may even get a trip to North Carolina.
Congratulations, Son. I’m very proud of you. You should be proud of you, too.
Love,
Mom