Braced for impact

I used to have this friend who always used to say, "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me." That's what I'm feeling like tonight. After everything that happened last school year with the teen how could I have let it happen again?

We finally got the teen's teacher on the phone. The school has a website where you can look up the homework each teacher has assigned for each class. The teen, when we asked him about this homework, has been claiming that he was doing it in class. Well, that was a big fat lie.

He hasn't been doing his homework, he hasn't made up the quizzes he missed from when he was sick, and he's been giving the teacher the run around when she gets on him about it. (He told us that he'd gotten everything made up.)

So. He has a school function tonight, and the husband has some church stuff to do, but when everyone gets home we're going to have a serious talk. Which should get very loud (on the teen's side) and involve much slamming of doors. He's going to be going to school early every day next week to make up some of the missed work, and we're going to have to start aggressively monitoring him.

I feel really bad that it happened again. I feel like I should have been able to keep this from happening. I don't know how I could, but I still feel like I should have. Hopefully I am learning and will be able to keep this from happening again. We'll see.

Off to put in my earplugs!