p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"She may not show it but Rosa liked school, it was an escape from the constant nagging at home. Her parents only talked to her about ballet or to emphasise their disappointment. If she was studying they wanted her to be practicing her ballet, if she was practicing her ballet then she should be studying. Even when she brought home her full marks paper, there was no praise, instead her mother said "well you better get full marks on the next one as well". So when she got off the school bus after a weekend with her family, Rosa was happy, not smiling, but happy./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"She walked into class and saw the usual; Hitchcock and Scully were asleep but still managing to eat cookies, Charles was telling Jake about the stuff he'd done with his Dad over the weekend, Amy was laying out her pens while Gina kept messing up all the order when she looked away and Mr Jeffords was trying to finish his yoghurt before the bell went. This was Rosa's real family./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Rosa went and sat down in between Gina and /"Ok guys I just want to remind you about the parent-teacher conferences this week, now I have your appointment slots here, so I'll pass them round. I'm really looking forward to talking to all your parents and letting them know how good you've all been," Mr Jeffords /As the appointment cards were passed around, Rosas happiness grew. Maybe if Mr Jeffords told her parents how good she was then they would finally believe /"Why have I got two appointments?" Jake asked /"Well Mr Holt also wanted to have a little chat with your parents," Terry replied. Panic flashed across Jake's face and jealously came across Amy' /"Right now we have Gym class, did everyone remember to bring their kits?" Terry /Everyone nodded apart from Hitchcock and /"Well you two will just have to do it in the clothes you're in now," he /"Sir are we doing dance?" Gina /"Take you feet off the table please Gina and I'll let everyone know what we're doing once we're down there," Terry /The class gathered up their Gym Kits and raced down to locker rooms, so excited to be getting out of the classroom./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"10 minutes later, Terry finally managed to gather the group in the gym. It had been a hard process, Gina wanted to redo her hair, Charles had brought headbands which Jake had discovered were really fun to fling at people, mainly Amy, the only one ready and waiting silently was /"Ok sit down with your legs crossed and your mouths closed!" Terry bellowed, finally silencing the /"Are we going on the trampolines?" Jake piped up, looking at the trampolines that had been set up in the middle of the sports /"Well I was about to explain what we're doing before you interrupted me," he said, glaring at him, "okay we are going to be going on the trampolines today,"br /A small cheer erupted across the /"But this means you all have to be really sensible as people can get really hurt if not everybody is concentrating. Now we have the 2 big trampolines and then 3 mini ones," Terry /"Can I go on the big one?" Gina /"If people can stop interrupting then I'll tell you which ones you're on. Ok so Rosa, Amy, Hitchcock and Scully you can go on the end big trampoline," Terry said, he then looked at the rest of the class. "Can I trust you to be in a group together and behave?" He asked Jake and /"Of course you can," Jake /"I'm offended you think we are untrustworthy," Gina /"Ok fine, Jake, Gina and Charles onto the other big trampoline and everyone else split up over the 3 mini ones, we will swap over later in the lesson," Terry /The groups divided off, Terry gathered the /"Ok guys, so one at a time on the trampolines and while one person is on the other needs to watch in case the person jumping falls. Now you all need to be really sensible, do not touch anything underneath the trampolines and do not go under the trampolines, okay?" Terry /He got a vague nod from most of them./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Rosa was first to go on her groups trampoline; she elegantly performed somersaults and flips, much to the amazement of her friends. Amy got up for her turn just as Gina started hers on the trampoline next to /"Yo Amy," Gina called while in midair. Amy looked /"Watch this...CANONBALL!" Gina shouted, launching herself onto Amy's trampoline, propelling Amy high into the air as she landed. Seconds later Amy crashed down on the /"Gina! What did I just say about being sensible, stay on your own trampoline or I will have to split your group up!" Terry /"Sorry Tearbear," she replied, returning to her own trampoline./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Charles was on the trampoline, performing mid air yoga poses and animal /"Hey Gina?" Jake called to Gina who was on the opposite side of the trampoline. He then ducked before she had a chance to see /"Jake where d'you go?" She /Jake shuffled back a bit and then took a bit of a run up and skidded on his knees under the trampoline crashing into Gina on the other /"Here I am!" He said with his goofy /"Jacob! What was one of the 2 rules I said!" Terry said, marching over /"Umm do not crash into your friends," he /"No, do not go under the trampoline under any circumstances! You guys told me you could be sensible! This is how people get hurt, Charles could have landed on your head and broke your neck!" Terry said /"I'm sorry," Jake /"I don't care, go and sit on the bench, you are no longer taking part in this lesson," Terry said. "Looks like I'll have plenty to talk to your parents about." He called after Jake, who was stomping off to the bench./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Mr Jeffords do you like my drawing?" Rosa asked, as she got off the bus the next /"Wow Rosa, that's amazing, I think I should take that and show your parents that tonight," Mr Jeffords /Rosa's face lit up./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Throughout the day Rosa brought up pieces of work to show Terry, who was always delighted and added them to the pile of things to show her parents. Jake was trying to be on his best behaviour, Amy was looking through all her work and checking for any mistakes that might have been made, Gina had tried to bribe a total of 7 times to big her up to her mom and Charles was just so exited for his dad to see his work, he had drawn him an I love you card./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Right guys parents are going to be arriving soon so I want you to all put your work in a pile on the table where you sit. And then we can go down to meet your parents," Terry /Terry noticed how nervous most of the class were as he led them down to the playground. The kids would play until their parents arrived for their appointment. Amy was Terry's first appointment and he was not surprised to see the playground was deserted other than her parents who had arrived 10 minutes a /"Right guys be good, I'll see you all in a bit. Mr and Mrs Santiago if you would like to come this way," Terry said, Amy and her parents followed him inside./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Well what can I say, Amy is amazing, my star student. Her grades are phenomenal, her behaviour is perfect. She's so organised and diligent, you should be immensely proud of her," Terry told /Amy beamed, her parents looked at her with a 'we're very proud of you' /"Now if you look through her work, you can see how much effort she puts in. Pretty much every test she has gotten 100% and been top of the class," Terry /Mr and Mrs Santiago looked through the work, clearly /Mr Jeffords then shook their hands and gave Amy a thumbs up and they left./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Amy darling, I think you deserve a treat, tonight we'll go to the shop and you can pick out any binder you want. We're so proud!" Her mother /"Thanks mom," Amy /Rosa watched this scene and her eyes followed the family as they left the school, she couldn't wait for her parents' appointment, then it would be her parents offering her treats./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Hitchcock and Scully's parents had a joint appointment. In which Mr Jeffords tried to educate them on how much food they should give their kids, but as soon as he mentioned food, they are just began to get hungry and didn't listen./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Next was Charles, him and his dad came in holding hands and Charles sat on his dads lap. Terry thought it was quite cute that the five year old loved his dad so /"Now Mr Boyle, Charles is a very good student, he's making very good progress and his grades are very high," Mr Jeffords explained. Charles and his dad beamed at /"But I would say, he can sometimes get distracted and there's been a few occasions he has talked over me. Now if you look in the last almost 4 months, since you started school you've had 3 behaviour points. All of which were for talking, so how about that's what you try and work on for me. It's then end of term next week so how about until then you show me that you can be quiet when I talk," Terry suggested. Charles /The Boyle's ogled over Charles' work until Terry had to ask them to leave as he had his next appointment./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Hey Charles how'd it go?" Jake asked, running over to his /"Pretty good, we're going for Turkish soup now," Charles /"Is that a treat or a punishment?" Jake asked /"It's a treat Jake! Is your dad hear yet?" Charles /"Not yet, I think it's Gina after Dozerman and then me, so he's probably just getting me a gift as a treat or something," Jake /Charles and his dad left, leaving Jake alone, his eyes on the gate, hoping for his father./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Rosa's parents arrived early, their appointment was after Jake' /"Hey Mom, hey dad," she /"Rosa, would you give us a tour of the playground," her father /"Sure," Rosa replied./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Jake was stood at the gate looking up and down the street, there was only 5 minutes till his turn. He gave up and went and sat on a bench with his head in his /"Jake honey?" His Mom called walking /His head shot up and he leapt to his feet, running over to /"Mom! Where's dad is he just parking the car?" Jake asked looking behind his Mom, hoping his Dad would come jogging through the gate to catch up with /"Actually sweetie, he couldn't make it this time, but he promised he'll come to the show next week," Karen Peralta said, she could see the disappointment flash across her son's face and the anger at Roger grew. The man was slowly breaking the boys heart, piece by /"Oh that's ok, I'm glad you could come," Jake /"Sweetie I would never miss it!" She said./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""And this is the sandpit," Rosa said, finishing the /"Very nice, they have quite good playing facilities, hope their library is just as vast," Mr Diaz /"Hey Rosa, d'you wanna play cops and robbers?" Jake called running up to /Rosa looked back her parents /They shook their /"Sorry man," she /"Hey come on Jake, Rosa's busy, we've got to go for are appointment," Karen said, taking her son's hand and leading him away./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Now Mrs Linetti, Gina is very intelligent. But she doesn't always apply herself. Her grades vary, she does extremely well if she likes the subject but disregards it if she doesn't. Her behaviour isn't too bad, but she has racked up 10 behaviour points and 2 detentions," Mr Jeffords /"Well I have to say it is better than I was expecting," Mrs Linetti /"So how about you start trying to focus in all lesson. I don't want to have to keep separating you and your friends every lesson," Mr Jeffords /"Okay fine," Gina /"Well Thankyou for coming, Mrs Linetti it was lovely to see you," Mr Jeffords said. They opened the door to find Jake and his /Karen and Darlene immediately were deep in /"Where's your dad?" Gina /"Umm he was busy and couldn't make it," Jake /"Oh boo," she said putting a hand on his /"No he tried to come, but he had to do an emergency flight I think," Jake liked, shoving Gina's hand off his /"Okay well good luck with Mr Jeffords. He said I don't focus and I don't understand where he got that from," Gina /"Mrs Peralta, Jake?" Terry /The Linetti's waved goodbye and Karen and Jake headed in./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Well Mrs Peralta, now I'm going to talk to you about Jake in class but then afterwards Principal Holt would like a quick chat with you," Terry /She nodded, Jake /"Okay, what can we're say about Jake?" Terry /"Class clown, with a heart of gold?" Jake shot /"Jake, sit and listen," his mother said, Terry did his best to hide his /"Well I'll start with his work, his English and creative writing is a very high standard, he's getting consistent B's in that department. He does seem to struggle with spelling, reading and math, his grades are usually low C's or D's and I'm afraid his handwriting is an issue. So I would say going forward, learn your times tables and just don't rush your writing cause it's hard to read. Now his behaviour," Terry started. Jake shuffled slightly in his seat /"Well concentration can be a problem, he's very easily distracted and then distracts his other classmates. I think you would find the lessons more interesting if you just focused. Timeouts are almost a daily occurrence with Jake, so I think you just need to make an effort to try and exert some more self control, okay buddy?" Mr Jeffords asked the /"Okay," Jake said, he looked at his Mom she didn't look angry, but they still had Mr Holt to go. Mr Jeffords showed her some of his work and the sent them down to where principal Holt /"Ah Jacob, Mrs Peralta, come in," Mr Holt /They entered the room and sat down in the two chairs in front of Mr Holt's /"Now I wanted to speak to you and show to Jacob's behaviour record," he said, placing a piece of paper on the desk, Karen leaned in to /"If you look it shows that in the last 14 weeks, Jake has gained 36 behaviour points and 17 detentions. Now I'm sure there has also been countless warnings and timeouts. He has been sent to me a number of times and there was the incident with Seth Dozerman that I'm sure you're aware of," Mr Holt began, Karen /"Now Jacob is a good, very bright young man, and there isn't usually any serious issues other than disrupting class and forgetting homework. But I want to see an improvement, I will be monitoring him and checking in on Mr Jeffords. I don't want to have to start going down other avenues if this behaviour continues. You have so much potential and I understand you have a lot of energy but you must learn to harness it," Mr Holt /Jake nodded and stared at the /His Mom and Principal Holt shook hands and then they /"Well I think you need to work a bit on your behaviour buddy don't you?" She said looking down at /"Are you gonna tell dad?" He asked, desperation in his /"No, it seems you're not doing anything majorly wrong but you just need to calm down and focus a bit, can you do that," she asked him. He /"Ok then I won't tell dad," she /Jake grinned and hugged his Mom./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"She walked into class and saw the usual; Hitchcock and Scully were asleep but still managing to eat cookies, Charles was telling Jake about the stuff he'd done with his Dad over the weekend, Amy was laying out her pens while Gina kept messing up all the order when she looked away and Mr Jeffords was trying to finish his yoghurt before the bell went. This was Rosa's real family./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Rosa went and sat down in between Gina and /"Ok guys I just want to remind you about the parent-teacher conferences this week, now I have your appointment slots here, so I'll pass them round. I'm really looking forward to talking to all your parents and letting them know how good you've all been," Mr Jeffords /As the appointment cards were passed around, Rosas happiness grew. Maybe if Mr Jeffords told her parents how good she was then they would finally believe /"Why have I got two appointments?" Jake asked /"Well Mr Holt also wanted to have a little chat with your parents," Terry replied. Panic flashed across Jake's face and jealously came across Amy' /"Right now we have Gym class, did everyone remember to bring their kits?" Terry /Everyone nodded apart from Hitchcock and /"Well you two will just have to do it in the clothes you're in now," he /"Sir are we doing dance?" Gina /"Take you feet off the table please Gina and I'll let everyone know what we're doing once we're down there," Terry /The class gathered up their Gym Kits and raced down to locker rooms, so excited to be getting out of the classroom./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"10 minutes later, Terry finally managed to gather the group in the gym. It had been a hard process, Gina wanted to redo her hair, Charles had brought headbands which Jake had discovered were really fun to fling at people, mainly Amy, the only one ready and waiting silently was /"Ok sit down with your legs crossed and your mouths closed!" Terry bellowed, finally silencing the /"Are we going on the trampolines?" Jake piped up, looking at the trampolines that had been set up in the middle of the sports /"Well I was about to explain what we're doing before you interrupted me," he said, glaring at him, "okay we are going to be going on the trampolines today,"br /A small cheer erupted across the /"But this means you all have to be really sensible as people can get really hurt if not everybody is concentrating. Now we have the 2 big trampolines and then 3 mini ones," Terry /"Can I go on the big one?" Gina /"If people can stop interrupting then I'll tell you which ones you're on. Ok so Rosa, Amy, Hitchcock and Scully you can go on the end big trampoline," Terry said, he then looked at the rest of the class. "Can I trust you to be in a group together and behave?" He asked Jake and /"Of course you can," Jake /"I'm offended you think we are untrustworthy," Gina /"Ok fine, Jake, Gina and Charles onto the other big trampoline and everyone else split up over the 3 mini ones, we will swap over later in the lesson," Terry /The groups divided off, Terry gathered the /"Ok guys, so one at a time on the trampolines and while one person is on the other needs to watch in case the person jumping falls. Now you all need to be really sensible, do not touch anything underneath the trampolines and do not go under the trampolines, okay?" Terry /He got a vague nod from most of them./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Rosa was first to go on her groups trampoline; she elegantly performed somersaults and flips, much to the amazement of her friends. Amy got up for her turn just as Gina started hers on the trampoline next to /"Yo Amy," Gina called while in midair. Amy looked /"Watch this...CANONBALL!" Gina shouted, launching herself onto Amy's trampoline, propelling Amy high into the air as she landed. Seconds later Amy crashed down on the /"Gina! What did I just say about being sensible, stay on your own trampoline or I will have to split your group up!" Terry /"Sorry Tearbear," she replied, returning to her own trampoline./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Rosa was enjoying the lesson, she could show off her skills and be praised for it. She was also having a great time with her friends, of course she wouldn't admit it, but she was loving watching Gina do her dances, Jake performing action film poses in mid air and Amy trying to jump as neatly as possible./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Charles was on the trampoline, performing mid air yoga poses and animal /"Hey Gina?" Jake called to Gina who was on the opposite side of the trampoline. He then ducked before she had a chance to see /"Jake where d'you go?" She /Jake shuffled back a bit and then took a bit of a run up and skidded on his knees under the trampoline crashing into Gina on the other /"Here I am!" He said with his goofy /"Jacob! What was one of the 2 rules I said!" Terry said, marching over /"Umm do not crash into your friends," he /"No, do not go under the trampoline under any circumstances! You guys told me you could be sensible! This is how people get hurt, Charles could have landed on your head and broke your neck!" Terry said /"I'm sorry," Jake /"I don't care, go and sit on the bench, you are no longer taking part in this lesson," Terry said. "Looks like I'll have plenty to talk to your parents about." He called after Jake, who was stomping off to the bench./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Throughout the day Rosa brought up pieces of work to show Terry, who was always delighted and added them to the pile of things to show her parents. Jake was trying to be on his best behaviour, Amy was looking through all her work and checking for any mistakes that might have been made, Gina had tried to bribe a total of 7 times to big her up to her mom and Charles was just so exited for his dad to see his work, he had drawn him an I love you card./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Right guys parents are going to be arriving soon so I want you to all put your work in a pile on the table where you sit. And then we can go down to meet your parents," Terry /Terry noticed how nervous most of the class were as he led them down to the playground. The kids would play until their parents arrived for their appointment. Amy was Terry's first appointment and he was not surprised to see the playground was deserted other than her parents who had arrived 10 minutes a /"Right guys be good, I'll see you all in a bit. Mr and Mrs Santiago if you would like to come this way," Terry said, Amy and her parents followed him inside./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Well what can I say, Amy is amazing, my star student. Her grades are phenomenal, her behaviour is perfect. She's so organised and diligent, you should be immensely proud of her," Terry told /Amy beamed, her parents looked at her with a 'we're very proud of you' /"Now if you look through her work, you can see how much effort she puts in. Pretty much every test she has gotten 100% and been top of the class," Terry /Mr and Mrs Santiago looked through the work, clearly /Mr Jeffords then shook their hands and gave Amy a thumbs up and they left./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Next was Charles, him and his dad came in holding hands and Charles sat on his dads lap. Terry thought it was quite cute that the five year old loved his dad so /"Now Mr Boyle, Charles is a very good student, he's making very good progress and his grades are very high," Mr Jeffords explained. Charles and his dad beamed at /"But I would say, he can sometimes get distracted and there's been a few occasions he has talked over me. Now if you look in the last almost 4 months, since you started school you've had 3 behaviour points. All of which were for talking, so how about that's what you try and work on for me. It's then end of term next week so how about until then you show me that you can be quiet when I talk," Terry suggested. Charles /The Boyle's ogled over Charles' work until Terry had to ask them to leave as he had his next appointment./p
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p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;"Jake was stood at the gate looking up and down the street, there was only 5 minutes till his turn. He gave up and went and sat on a bench with his head in his /"Jake honey?" His Mom called walking /His head shot up and he leapt to his feet, running over to /"Mom! Where's dad is he just parking the car?" Jake asked looking behind his Mom, hoping his Dad would come jogging through the gate to catch up with /"Actually sweetie, he couldn't make it this time, but he promised he'll come to the show next week," Karen Peralta said, she could see the disappointment flash across her son's face and the anger at Roger grew. The man was slowly breaking the boys heart, piece by /"Oh that's ok, I'm glad you could come," Jake /"Sweetie I would never miss it!" She said./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""And this is the sandpit," Rosa said, finishing the /"Very nice, they have quite good playing facilities, hope their library is just as vast," Mr Diaz /"Hey Rosa, d'you wanna play cops and robbers?" Jake called running up to /Rosa looked back her parents /They shook their /"Sorry man," she /"Hey come on Jake, Rosa's busy, we've got to go for are appointment," Karen said, taking her son's hand and leading him away./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Now Mrs Linetti, Gina is very intelligent. But she doesn't always apply herself. Her grades vary, she does extremely well if she likes the subject but disregards it if she doesn't. Her behaviour isn't too bad, but she has racked up 10 behaviour points and 2 detentions," Mr Jeffords /"Well I have to say it is better than I was expecting," Mrs Linetti /"So how about you start trying to focus in all lesson. I don't want to have to keep separating you and your friends every lesson," Mr Jeffords /"Okay fine," Gina /"Well Thankyou for coming, Mrs Linetti it was lovely to see you," Mr Jeffords said. They opened the door to find Jake and his /Karen and Darlene immediately were deep in /"Where's your dad?" Gina /"Umm he was busy and couldn't make it," Jake /"Oh boo," she said putting a hand on his /"No he tried to come, but he had to do an emergency flight I think," Jake liked, shoving Gina's hand off his /"Okay well good luck with Mr Jeffords. He said I don't focus and I don't understand where he got that from," Gina /"Mrs Peralta, Jake?" Terry /The Linetti's waved goodbye and Karen and Jake headed in./p
p style="border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-size: 15.12px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'GNU Unifont', Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; margin: 1.286em auto; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.5; color: #2a2a2a;""Well Mrs Peralta, now I'm going to talk to you about Jake in class but then afterwards Principal Holt would like a quick chat with you," Terry /She nodded, Jake /"Okay, what can we're say about Jake?" Terry /"Class clown, with a heart of gold?" Jake shot /"Jake, sit and listen," his mother said, Terry did his best to hide his /"Well I'll start with his work, his English and creative writing is a very high standard, he's getting consistent B's in that department. He does seem to struggle with spelling, reading and math, his grades are usually low C's or D's and I'm afraid his handwriting is an issue. So I would say going forward, learn your times tables and just don't rush your writing cause it's hard to read. Now his behaviour," Terry started. Jake shuffled slightly in his seat /"Well concentration can be a problem, he's very easily distracted and then distracts his other classmates. I think you would find the lessons more interesting if you just focused. Timeouts are almost a daily occurrence with Jake, so I think you just need to make an effort to try and exert some more self control, okay buddy?" Mr Jeffords asked the /"Okay," Jake said, he looked at his Mom she didn't look angry, but they still had Mr Holt to go. Mr Jeffords showed her some of his work and the sent them down to where principal Holt /"Ah Jacob, Mrs Peralta, come in," Mr Holt /They entered the room and sat down in the two chairs in front of Mr Holt's /"Now I wanted to speak to you and show to Jacob's behaviour record," he said, placing a piece of paper on the desk, Karen leaned in to /"If you look it shows that in the last 14 weeks, Jake has gained 36 behaviour points and 17 detentions. Now I'm sure there has also been countless warnings and timeouts. He has been sent to me a number of times and there was the incident with Seth Dozerman that I'm sure you're aware of," Mr Holt began, Karen /"Now Jacob is a good, very bright young man, and there isn't usually any serious issues other than disrupting class and forgetting homework. But I want to see an improvement, I will be monitoring him and checking in on Mr Jeffords. I don't want to have to start going down other avenues if this behaviour continues. You have so much potential and I understand you have a lot of energy but you must learn to harness it," Mr Holt /Jake nodded and stared at the /His Mom and Principal Holt shook hands and then they /"Well I think you need to work a bit on your behaviour buddy don't you?" She said looking down at /"Are you gonna tell dad?" He asked, desperation in his /"No, it seems you're not doing anything majorly wrong but you just need to calm down and focus a bit, can you do that," she asked him. He /"Ok then I won't tell dad," she /Jake grinned and hugged his Mom./p
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