Senior failing required math course

badgolfer
Wed, 27 May 2015 18:43:20 +0000

Our HS GC & teachers are terrible to say the VERY least. My daughter has always struggled - gives it her very best - we do also - private tutoring, etc. I appreciate any input & ideas

Suggestion one is stop blaming everyone else for your D’s problems. The issues clearly go much deeper than just this math class if she’s “always struggled”.

Tell me, are all the other kids in her classes struggling? Or do you feel they’ve singled her out for bad treatment?

Your attitude, sorry to say, has made an unfortunate situation much worse than it might have been. If your D has always struggled then you’ve known about her academic problems for quite a while. It could be she has a learning disability of some sort, emotional problems of some kind, or maybe just was never shown how to study effectively. Had you worked with her teachers and counselors to figure out how to help her do better in school she could be going off to college ready to succeed. Instead you’ve made the school, teachers, and counselors into the evil enemy that have it in for her.

No doubt you’ll now see me as part of the conspiracy to attack you and your daughter. And I’d bet this vision of the world against you goes back to elementary school days. Friends who are teachers talk of the occasional parent they call in for a conference who just refuses to accept there is any problem with their child, blaming instead the school and the teacher(s). My heart goes out to your child, for all the years that I suspect slipped by when she could have been helped to be a better student.