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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Her grades are D’s and F’s bad or C’s? The counselor isn’t going to care or do much if your child has C’s. Why aren’t you getting your child a tutor or helping her reach out to her teachers?[/quote]

Op here, she has a D in one of her classes. She has already spoken with her teacher who has given no feedback or comments, he literally said “do better on the tests” like common 🙄 obviously that’s the goal but how to do that?. He also offers retakes but doesn’t return the original test for the students to review over. This is our first child in high school so confused in what to do?[/quote]

Get a tutor through MyMCPS Tutor Me. It's free and will help prepare her even if she doesn't have the test in hand. They can work with the concepts. Also,  there should be a depth of study materials available on MyMCPS -- videos, study guides etc. Mine finds these for herself,  but sometimes she's like "oh, I just found this set of videos explaining x. Why didn't I see these before?" I don't know,  Kid. Get it together (is what I'm thinking)! But, hey, she's doing pretty well. Book rarly, you can always cancel if you don't need it.

Also,  maybe find a kid who is acing the class or did well the year before and ask to study with them or help with certain concepts. Offer to pay them. My kid had a very difficult teacher who refused to explain concepts.  It was a college level niche subject,  so even other teachers couldn't help. Kid asked a friend who was good at that subject and had taken it the year before with the difficult teacher for help. She was way better than the teacher and helped things really click for my kid. We paid her. She did 1/2 hour sessions via zoom or in person at lunch.

Good luck to your kid![/quote]

Op here, thanks for the helpful advice. Will look into these options![/quote]

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