"How a Harvard-Trained School Teacher, a Struggling Parent, and a Successful Businessman Created an Award-Winning Program that Gets Unmotivated Kids Mega-Motivated to Excel in School Almost Overnight..."

Dear Friend,

If you're like most parents, then you've probably tried everything to reach your unmotivated child and spur him or her to take school more seriously... whether it's paying for expensive tutoring, meeting with teachers, or even putting your child on punishment.

In fact, you've probably dreamed of getting a decent night's sleep without the stress of worrying about your child's academic progress. Are teachers constantly sending notes home with your child that you never get? Are you angry and disappointed when they call from school to give you bad news? Do they always remind you that your child is not working up to his or her full potential?

What about the constant struggle - arguing with your child almost every single night about doing their homework? Does opening a report card twist your stomach up in knots? Do you keep your fingers crossed every year, afraid to find out if your child will have to attend summer school again, or even worse, have to repeat a grade?

The question is, has anything really helped?

If you are indeed like most parents with an unmotivated child, then probably not.

I personally know how it feels to hit "rock bottom," when you've tried everything to help your child in school but nothing seems to work. I've been there, and I can honestly tell you it was a lonely place to be. Very lonely. (Or so I thought.)

You see, many parents think they are the only ones dealing with this issue. They don't realize there is a rising epidemic among America’s youth! Year after year, increasing numbers of middle and high school students are becoming seriously unmotivated when it comes to school.

Why is it happening? Well, it’s a complex issue, and there are a number of reasons: the movies, television, and music that our kids are bombarded with every day send messages that you don’t need school to be cool. The internet creates a culture of instant gratification that makes school seem too dull, boring, and slow. Even the get-rich-quick infomercials on late night TV make kids think they don’t need to work hard in school or in life to be successful.

"So what's a parent to do?"

Hi, my name is Ayele Shakur, and my husband and Stop Flunking! co-author is Gary Bracey.  We've been married for eight years, but before I got married I was a struggling single parent.  My son was floundering his way through school for years, far more interested in girls than in his school work. The dread of summer school was practically an annual occurrence, and we had an angry battle every time I saw his report card. I knew that he was capable of doing well – he just wasn’t working hard enough because he didn’t care.

But all of that changed around the 4th and 5th grades. It was only the end of elementary school, and I saw the trouble brewing. Homework time was becoming more of a daily headache. My son spent more time joking around with his friends than concentrating on his studies. Open Houses were downright embarrassing.

"His teachers didn't have big smiles with great things to say about my son anymore.  Now they just had long faces and a depressing list of issues to discuss."

I was working in two different places. During the day, I was teaching English on a part-time basis to 6th grade students at a public charter school. I was spending my afternoons and evenings as Executive Director of a nonprofit tutoring center in Boston.

     Working with hundreds of students each day, I started to notice something. Many of the students sitting in my English classes and coming to my tutoring center were very bright and capable kids – they simply didn’t care about school. Oh yes, their parents and teachers cared very much, but the students were far more interested in all those dizzying distractions of being a teenager.
 

Getting a student to do well in school - from completing homework assignments and scoring high on tests, to concentrating, focusing, and learning - all begins with one small seed: Motivation.

Unfortunately, in middle and high school, image is everything, and many kids feel like it's not cool to be smart. Negative peer pressure often pushes bright students to be underachievers. Smart kids even try to downplay their own intelligence in order to seem cool in the eyes of their friends.  During the turbulent teen years, the influence of a student's peer group is often stronger than a parent's disapproval, getting grounded, or even getting sent to the principal's office.

Seeing the same behavior pattern play out with my students and with my own son gave me an idea: I needed to create a motivational learning skills program that would be specifically designed to help failing teenagers become highly successful in school.

I brought the idea to my husband, Gary Bracey, and we talked about it one day over Sunday morning breakfast. “I know exactly how to get failing students to get A’s in school because I was just like them when I was a kid,” Gary told me.

Our breakfast conversation sparked the creation of a motivational learning skills program which, for almost a decade, has been transforming F’s to A’s for hundreds of previously unmotivated students.

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So let me ask you...

• Wouldn’t you love to become a powerful, master-motivator at home who can inspire your child to WANT to do well in school?
  
  
• Wouldn’t it be terrific if you came home from a hard day’s work and your child was already in his room studying?
  
  
• Wouldn’t you like having a motivated child who is proactive about school, eager to participate in class, and takes the initiative to stay after school for help with his teachers when he needs it?
  
  
• Wouldn't it be reassuring to know that your child takes school as seriously as you do, and understands the real benefits to being on the honor roll?