I must admit I was a bit worried about the meeting (held last Tuesday) with the secondary students. Saved By God’s Grace implemented a new policy in Term 1 of the 2011 school year stating if a student received a D+ or lower for 2 consecutive terms they could no longer receive sponsorship. There were 3 students with D+ or lower the first term and received their “warning term”. I wasn’t looking forward to putting this policy into action this term.
The day of the meeting dawned and the students were supposed to be at Nice View at 10am to discuss their grades. 10 rolled around, no one showed. 10:15 still no one. I was considering leaving to make a point…when I set a meeting at 10 I mean 10. Well by 10:30 one student showed up then they started to trickle in slowly so that by 1:30 the meeting was finished. Now, we had 3 students not show up but 1 had already talked with me about not being there so he was excused. The other 2 however were a no show and were 2 of the 3 from first term to get a D+ or lower…hmmm coincidence?
For the good news though! One of the students to receive a warning her first term raised her grade from a D to a C!!! I was so excited for her because not only had she brought her grade up but when I asked her how she had done it she said she had asked for help and got it! Now that is an accomplishment for her but also an encouragement to the other students to speak up and ask for help!
I’m still waiting to hear from the 2 missing students and praying for wisdom on how to handle the situation…but hey, let’s be positive and pray they improved their grades, right!?
UPDATE: heard from both missing students. 1 has not received his grades yet but should get them sometime this week and the other is meeting with me on Tuesday…praying for the best!!