DD struggling in AP Lang too late to drop or change class
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Anonymous
Agreed. If she's got a D in MP3, the odds of her figuring things out in three weeks time to get a 4 or a 5 on the AP exam are wildly unrealistic. OP, you should have a firm grasp of WHY your daughter has a D in the class and address that. AP Lang is not difficult if you keep up with the assignments as another PP said. So what's going on with your daughter? |
Anonymous
| I’d also forget about the exam and just focus on salvaging the grade. It’s mostly take home assignments so I’d hire an AP Lang teacher from another school to work with on all the assignments. That should also help improve writing skills in general. |
Anonymous
| If her current free tutor is not working out, ask for a new one. Tutor me will replace a tutor and she can do as much tutoring as you want. No limits. |
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Thanks. We have the free tutor and now are getting Varsity tutors too. She has not turned in a few assignments and is timid to ask teacher for rewrites /help (severe social anxiety—seeing a therapist). She is reaching out to teacher via email tonight. We have spoken with teacher via email about social anxiety issue related to class).
Will the exam Not affect her grade? I thought the same, fix the grade don’t worry about the exam but her counselor told me she was not sure if exam did not count toward grade? Thanks for advice. |
Anonymous
The AP exams aren’t graded until July. I can’t see how that score could impact her spring grade. I’d be surprised even if just taking it could count as participation points since you have to pay for it but I guess it’s worth confirming. |
Anonymous
Definitely does not affect her grade. I can guarantee that the teacher has made re-writes a part of the course already. |
Anonymous
| Is there a peer writing center at your school? My daughter works as a writing tutor for her school and kids come in all the time for help with papers. Would she find a peer less intimidating to work with vs approaching the teacher? |
Anonymous
An AP student with a D needs to approach their teacher to understand what needs to be done. Working with a peer tutor might be helpful on an individual assignment, but doesn't negate the need for communicating with her teacher. Anxiety or not, this will be critical to her academic success. |
Anonymous
Wait— not turned in a few assignments?? That’s why she has a D. Why on earth would she not turn in assignments? |
Anonymous
This is ridiculous. Of course she has a D if she hasn’t turned things in. Why are you just throwing up your hands and saying “social anxiety?” Help her get it together. Both of you go meet with the teacher and get a plan together to fix it. Don’t just stand around playing stupid while your daughter fails. |
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Ugh.
Here is the problem with MCPS. The grading system, ParentVue, etc, doesn't work well enough for parents to be able to see if kids are turning in assignments on time. In addition, most teachers just let kids skate and if they don't turn in assignments, oh well, that's on them! THey will just get a D. So the kids are not held accountable. And yes, ideally, kids are organized enough to stay on top of their work and be diligent and turn it all in on their own. But they are kids! Personally I think MCPS needs a better system that shows what is due and when and whether they have been turned in. Kids should get a couple days grace period and if it hasn't been turned in by the deadline, an email automatically goes out to parents and kid. Kid has two days to turn in assignment but has a few points taken off. When I was in school,. you had to turn your assignments in in person. The teacher would say, turn your assignment in, she would count them, and if yours wasn't there, she would publically shame you by asking you why you had not turned your assignment in. Parents would be called. Now teachers are just like, whatever. And the parents can't figure out because the system doesn't update well! |
Anonymous
| If she's struggling with AP Lang don't let her take AP Lit. Our college student took both and said that AP Lit was a harder class than AP Lang. Our kid got As in both courses. |
Anonymous
+1. Don't diagnose, instill self discipline. |
Anonymous
How tuned in are you to the current conversations in education? Publicly shaming kids is not something that would go down well in the current climate. Teachers have to give up because if they hold to hard and fast rules and standards, they get pummeled by entitled parents and kids who lobby and argue for extensions, passes and grace. This is not on the teachers. It's on us as parents, because the system has gotten that way because we've allowed the loudest voices in the room to drive our education system. When a teacher gives our kids a bad grade, we're the first to cry about how unfair it is. When our kid fails to turn in an assignment, we're quick to ask how many times the teacher told or reminded our kid about the assignment before they failed. As a matter of fact, we have complained so much that MCPS makes it harder for kids to even fail with the automatic 50% rule. So yeah, this is on us as parents in large part. The other part of it is driven by misguided educators and administrators who have twisted and warped antiracism and equity principles into lax standards and decided to treat words like "discipline" and "accountability" as dirty and oppressive. |
Anonymous
+1 OP, why did she not turn in assignments? That’s why she has a D. |