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<blockquote data-quote="SuZir" data-source="post: 598286" data-attributes="member: 14557"><p>CB, I don't want to offend you (yeah, starting a message like that never bodes well, but I really mean it, I just want to throw something out for you to think, even though I know you are not eager to think school thingies just now) but I think it would be beneficial to think your daughters long term goals right now. She has some significant learning disabilities I have gathered, she doesn't enjoy school and this year she has not progressed in the way you hoped partly because of the illness. Hopefully next year will be better, but there are no guarantees. </p><p></p><p>I think it is also safe to say that her professional goal is not to be professor of contemporary literature in Harvard. At least it is very unlikely. So maybe it is a time to start to think what really is important in her education right now. Where she is now and where she should be in three or four years so she could achieve <strong>her </strong>goals. I don't really know your school system so well and I don't know how much can be done. In our school system after ninth grade (end of our middle school) kids apply to different schools. About half go to solely/mainly three-year academic High Schools and other half to vocational schools though maybe 20 % of those in vocational schools take an extra year and complete also core classes of academic High School and take it's final exams. In vocational schools around 2/3 are vocational classes and 1/3 academics, both core subjects and some classes geared to teach things like accounting etc. so that if those future plumbers, electricians, chefs and hair stylists want to be self employed, they have some skills for that too. Then we have even more learning by doing-geared programs for those to whom even the vocational school is too theoretic.</p><p></p><p>I don't know what realistic options you have, but maybe it would be time to look at what your daughter wants to do when she grows up, what are her strengths and how she could make a good life based on those. And try to find both ways to hone those skills and also patch up the weaknesses that are on her way. Maybe for her the everyday functional reading skills are more important than analysing The Catcher in the Rye? Maybe something have to be let go to allow her enough time to learn what she really needs?</p><p></p><p>I'm sure also you have all kinds of alternative programs available. Maybe finding out about them in case your daughter's next school year is not better than this one is something your mother could put her excess energy into?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SuZir, post: 598286, member: 14557"] CB, I don't want to offend you (yeah, starting a message like that never bodes well, but I really mean it, I just want to throw something out for you to think, even though I know you are not eager to think school thingies just now) but I think it would be beneficial to think your daughters long term goals right now. She has some significant learning disabilities I have gathered, she doesn't enjoy school and this year she has not progressed in the way you hoped partly because of the illness. Hopefully next year will be better, but there are no guarantees. I think it is also safe to say that her professional goal is not to be professor of contemporary literature in Harvard. At least it is very unlikely. So maybe it is a time to start to think what really is important in her education right now. Where she is now and where she should be in three or four years so she could achieve [B]her [/B]goals. I don't really know your school system so well and I don't know how much can be done. In our school system after ninth grade (end of our middle school) kids apply to different schools. About half go to solely/mainly three-year academic High Schools and other half to vocational schools though maybe 20 % of those in vocational schools take an extra year and complete also core classes of academic High School and take it's final exams. In vocational schools around 2/3 are vocational classes and 1/3 academics, both core subjects and some classes geared to teach things like accounting etc. so that if those future plumbers, electricians, chefs and hair stylists want to be self employed, they have some skills for that too. Then we have even more learning by doing-geared programs for those to whom even the vocational school is too theoretic. I don't know what realistic options you have, but maybe it would be time to look at what your daughter wants to do when she grows up, what are her strengths and how she could make a good life based on those. And try to find both ways to hone those skills and also patch up the weaknesses that are on her way. Maybe for her the everyday functional reading skills are more important than analysing The Catcher in the Rye? Maybe something have to be let go to allow her enough time to learn what she really needs? I'm sure also you have all kinds of alternative programs available. Maybe finding out about them in case your daughter's next school year is not better than this one is something your mother could put her excess energy into? [/QUOTE]
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