One down… five to go
The first semester of high school ended on a more positive note than I frankly had expected. D asked for extra credit work for a couple of her classes and she sort of studied for her finals. She still completely disregarded my suggestion that she start studying sooner than the night before each test, but the good news is that she passed geometry, which she was miserably failing most of the semester. She earned a 70 on her final, and a 60 in the class. I’m surprised she had any skin LEFT on her teeth…
In order to take the test to get her driver’s permit she has to have a certain grade point average. Since she turns 16 this Sunday, we’ll be looking into what that requirement is when school’s back in session next week. She also earned the right to use her computer for more time during the evening.
It was crazy, she seemed so surprised and pleased by that – and acted as though she hadn’t considered the fact that she could get her privileges restored when her grade got above an F. Did she not understand the situation when she got grounded and we told her that she would have to get her grades up to get her computer time back?? Why doesn’t it make sense to her like it does to other kids, that if she just does her work and keeps her grades up she won’t get grounded? Or, at least, that if she gets her grade BACK up, she’ll be UN-grounded? I am sure we explained it well, she just doesn’t seem to get it.
It makes me crazy to explain and explain and watch her just blow off her punishment and act like it doesn’t make any difference. She just adapts and finds other things to do. She was so excited about her grades, and made a little sign to hang on hubby’s computer monitor to tell him about it… you’d think it would be easy for her to want to keep that feeling going and just do the work it takes to do so. But the obvious things and logical things just don’t seem to work for D like they do for others.
But it’s a new year. Anything’s possible.
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