End of senior year is a bad time to suddenly put your foot down and start being parentally strict. If the kid isn't an adult already, she will be soon.
Daughter gives two possible explanations for why this classwork isn't getting done - "senioritis" and a personal conflict with the teacher. Both are plausible explanations, no matter how "smart" she is, but if this really is just the one class she's having trouble in I suspect the latter is more accurate. (That, or they're both ways of avoiding admitting that the coursework is simply too hard, that she's hit the wall in that subject and doesn't know how to get past it.)
One "near fail" is not going to tank Daughter's life, especially not when college admissions are already in. Instead of going all Tough Parent on her, it's probably more effective to just say "Look, find out what the bare minimum you need to do to scrape a pass is, and I'll help you do it".
Or - let her fail. Natural consequences. Having to take the course again in summer school in order to properly graduate is not the end of the world.
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Daughter gives two possible explanations for why this classwork isn't getting done - "senioritis" and a personal conflict with the teacher. Both are plausible explanations, no matter how "smart" she is, but if this really is just the one class she's having trouble in I suspect the latter is more accurate. (That, or they're both ways of avoiding admitting that the coursework is simply too hard, that she's hit the wall in that subject and doesn't know how to get past it.)
One "near fail" is not going to tank Daughter's life, especially not when college admissions are already in. Instead of going all Tough Parent on her, it's probably more effective to just say "Look, find out what the bare minimum you need to do to scrape a pass is, and I'll help you do it".
Or - let her fail. Natural consequences. Having to take the course again in summer school in order to properly graduate is not the end of the world.