Does anyone what to do if a senior fails a required math course & still graduates? How do you go to summer school for credit recovery if you have already graduated?
Still waiting on the college admissions counselors input. We’re in Texas and the HS counselor wants to bump my daughter from the recommended diploma to the minimum requirement diploma so she can graduate - “whatever” that means.
Talk to your HS GC. We would just be guessing how your school works. Do it now.
Did speak with University…Suggested BYU online to recover course. Had no idea you could continue HS after graduation. Our HS GC & teachers are terrible to say the VERY least. My daughter has always struggled - gives it her very best - we do also - private tutoring, etc. I appreciate any input & ideas 
If this class is required for graduation, your daughter won’t actually graduate. They will hold her diploma until she does whatever it is that the school requires in order to fulfill graduation requirements.
Has your daughter met with her teacher about this? Taking an incomplete in the class, and re-doing parts of it over the summer might be one option that is available.
Your daughter probably won’t graduate if the math course is required. It would be taken over the summer online or offline. If the GC for your school isn’t very helpful, you might have to take this matter up with the principal. Only they would know your school’s policy with this kind of thing. If the university suggested BYU Online and the current high school is fine with it, go with that route.
Currently in Texas there are three graduation plans. Basically, the last one is given if you have a pulse. Her teacher this year has been absolutely terrible. We’ve had one conference after another. She really does not need to be teaching. It’s a shame parents have so little control. What can we do? It feels like I’m pounding sand.
Do not let them bump her down from recommended diploma if she plans on going to college. Texas universities require you to have a recommended or better diploma to gain regular admissions. My guess is she will have to complete the math class during the summer and graduate after summer session. She will not be able to graduate with her peers but she will retain her recommended diploma status. Most universities require to hold one of three type diplomas. (HB5) Distinguished Achievement, (UAS) Recommended, or (UAS) Distinguished.
In my school, seniors who have failed are currently taking summer school. They’ll take another final exam before graduation in 2 weeks.
Those who pass, pass. Those who fail, return to summer school in July, and receive their diplomas over the summer.
If you don’t see eye to eye with the guidance counselor, go up the chain of command to the director of guidance about what to do with your daughter.
And if I can help at all with the math, let me know.
Suggestion one is stop blaming everyone else for your D’s problems. The issues clearly go much deeper than just this math class if she’s “always struggled”.
Tell me, are all the other kids in her classes struggling? Or do you feel they’ve singled her out for bad treatment?
Your attitude, sorry to say, has made an unfortunate situation much worse than it might have been. If your D has always struggled then you’ve known about her academic problems for quite a while. It could be she has a learning disability of some sort, emotional problems of some kind, or maybe just was never shown how to study effectively. Had you worked with her teachers and counselors to figure out how to help her do better in school she could be going off to college ready to succeed. Instead you’ve made the school, teachers, and counselors into the evil enemy that have it in for her.
No doubt you’ll now see me as part of the conspiracy to attack you and your daughter. And I’d bet this vision of the world against you goes back to elementary school days. Friends who are teachers talk of the occasional parent they call in for a conference who just refuses to accept there is any problem with their child, blaming instead the school and the teacher(s). My heart goes out to your child, for all the years that I suspect slipped by when she could have been helped to be a better student.
^Some students just don’t understand math very well. And some teachers really are terrible at teaching. I’ve had that kind of math teacher and so has my son. No need to be so harsh with the OP.
@kidzncatz, are we responding to the same post? The OP isn’t talking about one math teacher, or even the math dept. Its the HS teachers, the counselor, and a kid she says has “always struggled.”
I would LOVE to take all the blame. Yes, she’s had specialized testing for LD. Went to a LD school all through elementary. She processes math information differently. Some people do struggle in school despite all their hard work and determination. As parents we have not had blinders on. BTW, she’s exceptional in all other subjects besides Math.
The issues I have with this one teacher are these: Her excessive absenteeism, not being available for before/school tutoring, not grading assignments in a timely manner & not using the textbook. All of these issues have been brought to the administration months & months ago without any change. We’ve had sit downs with admin & teacher several times this year. She has all the credits to walk with the minimum plan so why WOULD they help? Their records are not tarnished.
Has your daughter “always struggled” in a variety of subjects, or primarily in math? My teen daughter has dyscalculia. We do upper level math, but we also spend at least one day a week on fundamentals, speed, and accuracy. If your daughter has been struggling with math, you may want to work on fundamentals with her.
I wouldn’t let the school bump your daughter to a lower diploma. Check your school handbook and see if it says anything about how to make up failed classes. Can your daughter take a math class at a cc over the summer? Our local cc has short summer sessions. Maybe yours does too. If the college thinks that’s acceptable, I don’t know why the high school would mind. But check with both.
“Yes, she’s had specialized testing for LD. Went to a LD school all through elementary. She processes math information differently.”
If is very late in the game, but perhaps if you remind the school district of your child’s legal rights to a full, appropriate education, they will move on this. Lawyering up gets expensive for parents I know, but sometimes the fear that the parents will do just that is enough to alter the behavior of the school personnel. And to be perfectly honest, all your daughter really needs is for the principal to evil-eye the classroom teacher into giving her a mercy C so she can be done with this math class forever.
What topics is she struggling with? Can I help her prepare for the final?