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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]First, right now counselors are crazy busy with last minute things for college recommendations and applications for seniors. First deadline is Nov 1. The next priority for counselors will be mental health and attendance issues for struggling students.

Counselors don’t get involved with questions about grades, unless it is because the course level is too challenging and the student wants to drop levels (AP to honors, honors to regular) and needs a schedule change. That could happen for 2nd Qtr, but your child will finish the quarter in this course.

The first point of contact for grade questions is the teacher. If your kid needs additional help, is she going to the teacher’s office hours to ask for it? Is she seeing out other help in the school like homework club or honors society tutoring? How about using the vast internet resources to study? Tons of websites and videos on all content areas. If a couple of communication attempts, documented by email from the student, hasn’t resolved the concern, then forward the concern to the department head (resource teacher).

-HS teacher
(Who just gave a survey that showed that the struggling students are also the ones not using the study supports I’ve provided.)[/quote]

Op here.Thank you for the advice. You sound like an excellent teacher. 
Unfortunately, my child’s teacher is beyond reproach they has gone multiple times to him asking for help and he keeps brushing them off. Today he actually “pretended” like they have never talked about this before. It’s ridculous. I will email him next…just wanted to first let my child advocated for themselves, but that’s not working well. .but I don’t anyth8ng can be done. Apparently, everyone knows he is a horrible teacher and he has Been at the same school for two decades. So his lack of understanding or teach8 g skills don’t matter and he has immunity against all complaints. I think it’s time we got outside help for our child in this subject. She has high A’s in all her classes, just a D in this one class. I think that has to mean something about the effectiveness of this teacher.[/quote]

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