Henderson Reflection - Ch 9~~Graves

While I was looking through this chapter about answers to the toughest questions, one question drew me in : What do I do when a child won't complete his work? I just had to see what the answer was to this question. I know this is a book about writing but I have been asking myself this question ever since the first week of field study. There is one student in my class that never finishes anything. He just sits in class off in lala land. He doesn't finish anything. He is a very quiet student too. I found myself getting frustrated with him. The teacher has told me that the mom says the work is too much for him to do. So the teacher lets him only do half the work. He does not participate in anything. I have to sit by him and constatly stay on him to get finished. Most of the work that needs to be finished is in the literacy block. I don't like doing that but what else can I do?