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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That poor child. Her first C and you are ready to beat her up over it. Tell her to bring it up next quarter. This is how kids go crazy in school, the parents expect perfection[/quote]

Wow...enable much?

NP...but I am with OP here. This is not an "I tried my best and my best yielded a C" situation, PP. This is an "I got a C and had a chance to fix it by retaking a test but I couldn't be bothered to be responsible enough to turn in the required paperwork to do it" situation. Lazy. Pure and simple. And yes...in my house that means consequences beyond just the natural one of getting a "C" that you don't want.

The standard in our house is that you put forth your best effort. And, okay, everybody screws up or makes a mistake or fails to understand something even when they try their best. But if you have an opportunity at a second shot and blow it off (even after multiple reminders) that is not putting forth your best effort. So yeah, I'd totally take her phone away for a while.[/quote]

It might not be "can't be bothered." It might be that her daughter is afraid to communicate with the teachers. I have two kids who are excellent A students. However, if somehow they've missed an assignment, or a teacher mistakenly marked it as missing, they'd rather take a zero than go up and ask the teacher about it. I think middle school is about teaching kids how to communicate with the teachers directly, and supporting them in that. Don't worry about the grade, but check in with your daughter about her real reason for not making up the test. There are lots of dynamics the kids are dealing with at school that feel very real and stressful to them.[/quote]

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