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<blockquote data-quote="Blue Nude" data-source="post: 381402"><p>Letting her fail? Yes, it's definitely something we've considered. What I'm struggling with is that she is intellectually gifted -- gifted program, accelerated classes, etc. She claims that she wants to go to the International Program Magnet high school in our county. She has to apply by the first week of December. If she gets Cs or below she won't get in -- no matter how well she's done up to now. </p><p></p><p>The classes that she's doing poorly in are not her accelerated classes. She's failing health class for goodness sake. All she has to do is turn in the assignments, she just refuses to. She has a C in math, primarily due to missing assignments, not because she can't do the work. </p><p></p><p>Her Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) makes her a perfectionist. If I can't be the best, I won't bother trying at all. My thought at the moment is that she's afraid she won't get into the Magnet school or that it will be too hard once she gets there, so she's self-sabotaging. I don't know. Makes me want to bang my head on the ground.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blue Nude, post: 381402"] Letting her fail? Yes, it's definitely something we've considered. What I'm struggling with is that she is intellectually gifted -- gifted program, accelerated classes, etc. She claims that she wants to go to the International Program Magnet high school in our county. She has to apply by the first week of December. If she gets Cs or below she won't get in -- no matter how well she's done up to now. The classes that she's doing poorly in are not her accelerated classes. She's failing health class for goodness sake. All she has to do is turn in the assignments, she just refuses to. She has a C in math, primarily due to missing assignments, not because she can't do the work. Her Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) makes her a perfectionist. If I can't be the best, I won't bother trying at all. My thought at the moment is that she's afraid she won't get into the Magnet school or that it will be too hard once she gets there, so she's self-sabotaging. I don't know. Makes me want to bang my head on the ground. [/QUOTE]
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