Thank you for sharing this with me!

I am taking action on these suggestions.

This is my gratitude in action!

Dan Bowers

Surely there is a primary question of salience. Failing a grade is often not a meaningful consequence to an unmotivated student. The possibility of failure has meaning for adults concerned with long term outcomes, not some children who are much more short term in outlook. "so what" etc. is an often heard refrain that may well be entirely appropriate from the child's perspective.