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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DD was diagnosed ADD as a freshman after her grades tanked. She'll graduate HS.with a 3.8 for the last 3 years (her college seems to have forgiven freshman grades). Not uncommon for smart girls to get by until high school when classes start to get hard. 
I get that you need her out of the house in 3 years, but you can't dump all that on her that at age 14. [b]And worst case, one year at a community or "lesser" college with a plan to transfer is not failure.[/b] [/quote]

OP here.  DD doesn't have ADD, she is just a classic underachiever.  It's encouraging to know that she can pull her GPA up over the next 3 years and that all is not lost.  For me, if she HAS to go to community college, I will feel like a failure, because it means I didn't drill hard enough into her head the proper values of hard work and always doing your best.  She really is capable of straight A's but has decided a different path for her life.

I guess it could be worse.  My sister is dealing with my 16yo niece that is an honors student but has gotten mixed up with drug and alcohol use/abuse.[/quote]

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