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[quote=Anonymous]Please please please as a HS math teacher, reach out to her teacher to help identify the issues. Is she missing foundational algebra 1 skills? Struggling to apply the basics to more complicated problems? Distracted in class/not doing the work/not asking questions? Does the teacher think she can pull it together, or is it a lost cause?

If she were in my class at my school, I would encourage you to tell her she is dropping the course. I know she doesn’t want to, but she’s a child and you’re the parent. An F in honors means she isn’t retaining anything and is going to be set up to fail in future math classes. Forget about college, an A/B/C in regular algebra 2 means she has some basic understanding of the concepts. In honors the extensions are clearly so far over her head I doubt she is grasping the basics either.

I’m sorry—I know it’s hard. This is the course where years of holes are discovered, unfortunately. Never learned your factor pairs? You’re expected to be able to factor trinomial mentally. Used substitution to check equations instead of solving? Too bad, equations have multiple answers now so it won’t work. A lot of kids try honors and drop by the end of Q1–she certainly won’t be alone.[/quote]

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