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Grades
I would make sure that his grades are part of his court file and would certainly give copies of his grades to the CW to be given to the judge.
I would pick battles with the biomom. If he missed so much school, then she certainly doesn't care and will not care. Don't expect anything from her to change. If you do expect her to change into a "normal" person, you will go crazy. Accept that she can't or won' t care about his school and fight the battle from your end.
Trust me - you will go crazy if you put your normal expectation on people who can't or won't do that. I had so many problems expecting FD's biomom to do what most people would, but she didn't. I always took it personally. But now I don't because she can't/won't act like what I expect a parent to do.
FD used to miss more than 20 days of school a semester because there was no one to help her with homework and she had such anxiety from not doing homework. she also had all Ds and Fs. Now she has a 3.2 despite learning disabilities. Do not expect biomom to back you up on this. Help FS to find an outside activity that he loves, and that will help him to change his attitude towards school. It will take time, but can happen.
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