Daughter tanked every midterm -- all As to all Bs (possibly one C)

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Anonymous wrote:"Flunking" or essentially flunking all your semester exams warrants severe punishment. Why the hell would it not? Most of you are obviously trolling.

eh, maybe talk to the girl and find out what happened before you go ballistic on her.

[Anonymous]

"Flunking" or essentially flunking all your semester exams warrants severe punishment. Why the hell would it not? Most of you are obviously trolling.

My kid received terrible grades on her finals throughout HS. Her punishment was having her final course grades be lower than she might have preferred. She just finished her first semester of college with nothing lower than a B+.

[Anonymous]

Red flag, You need to find out why she is afraid of in the next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

"Flunking" or essentially flunking all your semester exams warrants severe punishment. Why the hell would it not? Most of you are obviously trolling.

My kid received terrible grades on her finals throughout HS. Her punishment was having her final course grades be lower than she might have preferred. She just finished her first semester of college with nothing lower than a B+.

B+ as in 3.3? That's not exactly good...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

"Flunking" or essentially flunking all your semester exams warrants severe punishment. Why the hell would it not? Most of you are obviously trolling.

My kid received terrible grades on her finals throughout HS. Her punishment was having her final course grades be lower than she might have preferred. She just finished her first semester of college with nothing lower than a B+.

B+ as in 3.3? That's not exactly good...

For someone so eager to be an arbiter of academic excellence, you have surprisingly poor reading comprehension (and/or math skills).

[Anonymous]

I guess I'm not seeing the problem with all Bs. At all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The girl is going to have a "B" average in these classes. It isn't like she flunked herself out on her b*tt.

I think it's time to step back and take a chill pill Op.

Nearly flunked all exams. I don't know anyone who fails high school classes. Maybe kids that never show up, I guess?

My son, a usually excellent student, is failing Algebra 2. He studies hard, stays after school to work with the teacher, has a private tutor, etc. But he just is having a horrible time. He will probably fail this class and have to take it again. You seem to live in a very peculiar bubble where kids never have trouble. It's kind of making me sick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sorry OP, but you represent everything that is wrong in the schools in/near DC. We have three college grads. One in college. One high school senior. Life is long and this is one tiny snapshot in time. It really doesn't matter nearly as much as you believe it does. There are Ivy grads living in their parents' basements because they can't find/keep a job. And kids who never went to college making six figures. And everything in between.

You don't punish an 18 year old adult. If she limits her college choices (assuming she wants to go straight from high school to college) then it's on her.

Also, B's and a dreaded C are hardly worth getting worked up over. This is exactly why so many kids have serious mental health issues.

THANK YOU. Agree 100%.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I guess I'm not seeing the problem with all Bs. At all.

Cool. Tell your kids to enjoy whatever shitty open-door college they go to...and take five or six, if ever, to graduate from.

[Anonymous]

Maybe your DD is reacting to you constantly harping on her about how her friends all have college acceptances, because you've tied your self-worth to your kid's academic performance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess I'm not seeing the problem with all Bs. At all.

Cool. Tell your kids to enjoy whatever shitty open-door college they go to...and take five or six, if ever, to graduate from.[/quote]

dont see anything wrong with going to a "shitty college" or taking time to graduate. Get over yourself. Your kids are probably miserable. It's OK not to be perfect. Trust me, NONE of us are.

[Anonymous]

UPDATE:

I told her to grub and she begged her way to 3 As this week.

[Anonymous]

At 18, the best "punishment" would be to let her face the natural consequences of her actions. Maybe she'll get rejected from her "dream school" and have to go to a "lesser" school.

At a certain point, you have to step back and just allow reality to assert itself.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I guess I'm not seeing the problem with all Bs. At all.

Cool. Tell your kids to enjoy whatever shitty open-door college they go to...and take five or six, if ever, to graduate from.

My kid got plenty of Bs over the course of his high school career and went to a selective private university, from which he graduated in 4 years.

People are so weird.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UPDATE:

I told her to grub and she begged her way to 3 As this week.

You must be so proud of her.