<p>Wow! That was fabulous. And WWAAYYYY better than I have handled things so far. LOL I will be incorporating a lot of your approach from here on out. It might even fix some things as my daughter is not a fan of talking about grades… Maybe if I took the pressure off (real and imagined), we could get somewhere. I am curious to hear what the teachers have to say at PW as there are always 2 sides and hearing their viewpoint should go a long way towards a solution. FWIW, my daughter has already made some changes - she doesn’t want us to interfere (thank goodness) but she has already mentioned using free/conference periods during the day to do extra work vs. saving it all for study hall. Maybe there is something to this “being on your own” thing after all. Kidding, of course - I know there is or we wouldn’t have let her go away. Thanks for sharing this.</p>