I have a confession to make. I haven’t written in weeks. Unfortunately I”m not one of those writers who use writing to escape when the real world gets bad, so bad real world = no writing. I’m not even reading.

I should be working on the YA for my agent. I SHOULD be working on a new ER proposal for her too, along with the women’s fiction proposal I’d like to get finished, not to mention an erotic short for Cobblestone that’s due, but…I got nothing.

Every time I think about writing, I get brainfreeze. I don’t even have anything decent to blog about. And most if it is my kids fault (though financial woes and home repairs aren’t helping either).

You see, on the other end of this, are schools who will spoon-feed (and probably even IV feed) kids to get them through. They’ll do whatever is necessay to get a kid to pass. In my son’s HS last year 300 kids failed so his Freshman class has 900 kids. So now they have credit recovery where, after you FAIL, you go in and do all the work you didn’t do and get a 70. Wow…I wish the real world worked like that. So #1 had to do this for English and I asked him if he was done and he said he was but he ALSO said the teacher said he wasn’t. Right now the end of the second six weeks looms near and #1 is failing two classes. #2 is also failing a few classes. In his case it’s because he’s ADD and needs to (finally) be medicated. However you can’t just take your kid to anyone yaknow? And so I asked the school counselor for doctor recommendations and to talk to her about his ADD–she had few if any suggestions for me, especially in regard to dealing with his teachers. She didn’t have any doc recs either. She asked the nurse who suggested a doctor who doesn’t take insurance. Sadly I dont have 500 bucks just lying around to get the kid tested. #2 is about to get booted out of some of his AP classes for failing. Not becuase he can’t do the work but because he can’t TURN IN the work. Funny, I went through this when he was in kindegarten to and the counselor was just as (not) helpful then too. It seems to be feast or famine with them.

Everything’s great as long as your kid is passing and their numbers look good, but if things DON’T look good then they spoon-feed and/or expect you/me/the parent to also. I’ll do whatever I can to help #2 but I’m NOT spoon-feeding a fifteen year old! I shouldn’t have to. He can fail. It might do him some good.

But I have a feeling it’s going to hurt me a lot worse than it’s going to hurt him.

On a brighter note, I did my part to help the economy this weekend and picked up some books, including Jordan’s RED.

I got nothing….what about you?