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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wouldn’t be angry until I had more information.

What happened from DC’s perspective? How’s their overall physical and emotional health? If your DC is in a complicated health situation, addressing that would be my first step.

What role are alcohol/drugs playing, if any?

I’d ask how we could help as parents.

It’s one thing to bring home mediocre grades, but failing a class is a sign that something went very wrong. Also, what year is DC?

Part of me is already furious on your behalf. But a larger part of me wants to know what’s going on with your DC, and to hopefully help them learn something from this and not repeat it.

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I don't understand this huge overreaction. It's one class. It turned out to be harder than kid anticipated. Good for him for being ambitious and trying something new.

All of PP's concerns would make sense if his grades, in general, were slipping. When there is a problem with substance abuse, illness, mental health crisis, you don't bomb one class and do fine in the rest.[/quote]

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