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Mrs. Steele?

Yes.

Hi.

Hi.

I'm, uh, Ms.

Starr.

Hi, Ms.

Starr.

You're Alice's mother.

I am, I am.

Have a seat.

Well, I'm a little bit, um, upset here.

I received this, uh, this in the mail, and it says that he's failing, and I thought we had had this, you know, taken care of.

It's, um, been three weeks since he last saw you, and, um,

What happened?

You know, we were supposed to pull up some grades, and you gave them a little lecture and everything.

You promised you would keep it up.

You said you would keep up good work.

Oh, boy.

Yeah.

I mean, you had three weeks in between the last time we spoke with you.

Are you encouraging him and getting involved with him?

Like I said, I'm a single parent.

I'm working hard.

It's kind of a little difficult for me to push him.

encouragement, you know, like a lot of female encouragement.

Really?

A lot of attention, especially if you're a single mother, you know, then he really needs that special care and attention from you.

Only you can give that.

Right.

Maybe we should have like a session, like the three of us, that way you can give me the pointers on how to be, you know, better involved, more involved.

Well, yeah, I, I definitely have to call him in.

We need to talk, the three of us, because he and I have met and, um,

We had quite a good session.

I felt that it was pretty good.

It really felt good to me.

But apparently, it wasn't good enough.

So let me just get him in here and see what's going on.

Vicki, can you send the student Alex Starr into my office, please?

Thank you.

So he should be here any second.

We can all discuss.

Thank you.

I appreciate your time.

Oh, well, that's my job.

You're welcome.

Oh, Alex.

Come on in.

Hey, you.

Hi, Mom.

Hey.

What are you doing here?

Well, bad news.

Hello again.

Hello.

We're seeing some distressing grades again.

What's going on?

What happened?

You had three weeks in between from when you came in and spoke with Ms.

Steele, and what happened?

You know, I've had a lot on my mind, and it's only been three weeks.

Do you know how much this cost me?

I'm a single, hardworking parent, and I don't have time to babysit you.

You're a grown boy.

Why don't we take this over to the couch?

Oh, yeah, it's a little...

Oh, boy.

Well, your grades started to go up, and then they went back down.

And they've just gone down.

And now you're back at failing again.

I can't have that.

I can't.

What do you, I mean, recommend?

I mean, you guys had the session.

Is there something, is the same thing happening that was bothering you before?

Yeah.

Yeah, that's a problem.

Something...

What's wrong?

What problem?

This is a little tricky to explain to you.

It's embarrassing.

I know.

We'll take care of it.

What's going on?

That's kind of so chummy.

Well, you know, I'm a counselor.

Sure, sure.

I like to get into people's heads.

He seems to be happy.

Alex really is big.