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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Still a few weeks left, see if they can pull a D, and tell them that next semester has to be better. Sit down with the teacher and make a plan. I've had students on a modified schedule to make up work with their and their parent's signature with strict due dates for missing work. Trust me no teacher wants a student to not graduate. [/quote]
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OP - ignore the ridiculous college chatter and focus on the issue at hand. The first goal is for your kid to earn a D this quarter so he passes. There’s roughly 3 weeks left to keep on top of current work and make up enough work to get there, but there needs to be a firm plan.

Email the teacher and cc both the counselor and his grade level administrator. Acknowledge the problem, acknowledge your students’ fault, and ask for specifics about remaining assignments and makeup work so he can pass. Also ask if there is lunch help or a homework club where he can get support to finish the work.

If he doesn’t pass (for whatever reason), there is an option called credit recovery for students that went DE. It’s an online version of 2nd qtr, usually monitored by a teacher in the school, with enough work to get the grade up to a D for the semester. Have his 2nd semester schedule adjusted so he passes the semester B of the technology class and also has a support class for the credit recovery class (resource/study skills).

The grade level admin has the goal of getting as many kids across the graduation stage as possible, so they end up tracking and triaging all the kids in danger of not meeting requirements ( credits, testing, SSL) and trying to resolve the issue.[/quote]

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