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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks. We have the free tutor and now are getting Varsity tutors too. She has not turned in a few assignments and is timid to ask teacher for rewrites /help (severe social anxiety—seeing a therapist). She is reaching out to teacher via email tonight. We have spoken with teacher via email about social anxiety issue related to class). 
Will the exam Not affect her grade? I thought the same, fix the grade don’t worry about the exam but her counselor told me she was not sure if exam did not count toward grade? 
Thanks for advice. [/quote]

Maybe?  My kid did have 2 AP classes (out of 12) where the teacher said : if you get a 5 you get an A (same teacher).  But that is unusual, and I’m not sure it was kosher. Anyway, You can’t cram for an AP Lang exam. You can either write well or you can’t.  And poor writing skills can’t be solved in 3 weeks. Plus, you don’t have to report the score. And a 5 with a D isn’t going to be as much help as you think. A D says: GPAs talent, doesn’t work hard.

You’re in a tough place. My DD also had social anxiety. And we started working on self advocacy in MS.  And it started with her sitting in her therapists office with tears running down her face trying to construct an email. Now she’s in college and mentioning how she dropped by a professors office to discuss a summer program option and get a course override like it’s nothing. If your DD isn’t working with a therapist and considering medication, please consider these  options. If she can’t self advocate in college it’s going to be bad.

I think most teachers want their students to succeed. And almost no teachers want to be the one grade that sinks a good student in college admissions. But, they know that not holding your kid accountable now hurts them later.  My DD did best when the message was: I screwed up. I have looked at why and can see that I have have not done the revisions I should have. I know full credit is no longer possible. But, if I make up the work now, is it possible to do damage control on my grade?  And help her email if she’s intimidated. Self advocacy is built one block at a time.

Now, if she can’t or won’t do the revisions, I don’t think DCUM can help. [/quote]

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