[ca-bigsister]

You're doing a great job.

I'm sorry that the teacher is not more accommodating. If I had a concerned parent like you, I would bend over backwards. Where I teach in a low socioeconomic area with English Language Learners, most parents are not involved in their students' school lives. I wish they would be. Homework is not pushed to be important, and our students suffer because their literacy scores/abilities are so low. (Some seniors still don't know the difference between where and were, I'm and I'am, subject/verb agreement, i.e., they was, he were, he live in the neighborhood, and they expect to go to college).

In some homes, homework/school is not important and I feel like the town crier calling home, asking parents to get students to come to school, be here on time, etc.

Maybe if you speak with the child's counselor and have a meeting, that might help. At previous schools, we had a meeting called a student success team where students/parents/teachers/counselors and an administrator got together to discuss possibilities. Sometimes when the student sees the seriousness of all of his/her teachers taking time to be at a meeting, and being asked how the student can be helped, sometimes it helps them to get more serious, especially if it's not just the parent doing the questioning, offering solutions, etc.

Just a thought.