Would you be happy if.....?

Question

Parents only...
Would you be happy with your 15 y/o daughter (doing all honours subjects) if she got the following results in her Christmas report?
English 58% C
French 77% B
Irish 72% b (68% C for term)
Maths 75% B (highest in class/year and 78% for term)
Science 79% B
Geography 77% B
History 79% B
Religion 90% A
Business Studies 70% B

Please don't say as long as you did your best..... would you genuinely be happy?

They're my results......

Our english teacher is crap, nobody did well.....
In Ireland the grades are different

A= 85%-100%
B= 85%- 70%
C= 70%- 55%
D= 55%- 40%
E= 40%- 25%
F= 25%- 10%
NG= 10%- 0% (No Grade)

(A, B, C, D = pass E, F, NG = fail)
NG=

This were all in a term exam not just homework.
It is alot harder to get good grades here in Ireland compared to America, our homework is not considered, it is all down to the term final exam.

I thought I made it clear IRISH SCHOOLING GRADES ARE MORE DIFFERENT AND MORE DIFFICULT THAN AMERICA.

It is MY school report, I just wanted parents' opinions on it.

English is just my downfall. I am not good at it!! I do work hard, I don't think that somebody who got highest in their class (and maybe year) in maths would slack off at English. Everybody complains about our english teacher, and not just my class her past classes aswell and other present classes.

May I also say to those who are saying about their straight A children, if all I had to do was hand in homework, do a project or to and if I was behind do some extra credit then I'd be a straight A student aswell, heck so would to whole of Ireland. Our system is harder and more chalenging than Americas.

My first language is English...... My test was on a novel and a Shakespearian play.

I have only been doing Irish since I was 10, compared to my friends who started aged 4.

Answer 1

no they will be okay i guess

Answer 2

I cannot believe this. I could hear my fathers voice when I was reading some of these replies - not good enough, don't bother coming back with anything less than an A. The more you pressure your child the more they'll buck the system,or in my case self harm and worse. Hurting yourself was better than hurting your father because you failed. I do not do this to my child. I love her and tell her that as long as she is happy. Sure we all catch ourselves saying 'you could do better' but what child will do better with the added pressure from her parents. I didn't.

Don't worry about your marks A's and B's are good. Sure the English lets it down but you've not said whether Irish is your first language. If it is then great, if not well only you know why.

Don't put added pressure on to your children they will resent you, they might improve their marks but will harm themselvesin some way or another. Self confidence will go out the window. Do not live your life through your child. Let them learn, let them make mistakes, and let them grow. this is not new age nonsense but experience of being in that pressured place and feeling like a complete failure.

Answer 3

i wouldn't be sad but i may sit down with her and ask her if she is having a hard time in those honour classes and if so what steps of action is she going to do to improve study longer. ask to be demoted to an easier class i would like to get inside her head.. so i can see if she tried hard or not! or only did what was needed...

h0onestly it don't matter how hard the class is or not or what the grade is if i was smarter then i am now i would studie the childs book and jsut start asking questions to her about it. if she knew the answers then i would ignore the C because she knew the stuff and maybe had a bad day on an important test!

communication is the main part here not so much the grade it's what you learn and how you share that information you received!

Answer 4

Why would a parent be unhappy with grades like those?

You get the grades you earn. And those grades aren't too shabby. You might want to work a little harder on the English grade though.

But we don't have Irish so I can't count that one. And we can't teach religion in school so I'd have to throw out that A.

Spanish is taught here as a second language but French is always good to have just in case you ever go to Paris.

Answer 5

Those are quite good marks. I'd be very pleased for her! Especially the maths, that's really great. Irish is good, it's a difficult language. French is also good. I'd say she's a bit bored with the English course to be getting such a mark. Science, that's really good, same for history.

English was the lowest mark, the rest were great. Kudos to your daughter!

You need to be encouraging at this stage, is she doing an exam this year?

By the way, this is the Irish system we're talking about, American Answerers. You actually have to do more than just a bit of homework to get As over here.

Answer 6

I would be very proud. You are either in Second or Third year. Keep doing honours English for the Junior Cert, it doesn't matter that much. However, when you get to Leaving Cert if it takes up too much time and you don't think you can do better it may be advisable to drop down to Ordinary as if you get the same result in points an A1 in Ordinary will work out the same and won't be as taxing.

Answer 7

At my high school, honors class grades were weighted so that they were counted as a full grade higher, a B would equal an A, etc, but D's and F's counted as D's and F's. So your daughter would have one B, one A++, and rest A's by that measure. That's great. The grading scales have changed I guess, when I started school, an A was 94% and above. By high school it was 100-90 A, 80-90 B, 70-80 C.

Answer 8

As the mother of 3 teenage daughters, I would have to say that yes I would be very happy.
What some parents don't understand is that not every one is good in every subject, so English is not your strong point, but you are going to get the credit right? It is obvious that you have put in good effort this term and let's face it as a 15 yr old there is alot worse you could be doing!
So be proud of yourself and hopefully your parents will see it that way too!
(Of course remember that they just want the best for you - but they are only human and aren't perfect either!)

Good going and best of luck!
Monique

Answer 9

That is an incredible course load. I can't imagine trying to do that well in all those classes and I was a Suma *** Laud graduate in college. She is being challenged and apart from the C in english I would be very OK with these grades. Sure it would be nice if there were more A's but real world expectations would find these most acceptable.

Answer 10

No...it sounds like she is taking courses that are either too hard for her or she just isn't putting enough effort and hard work into her studies. I have a 14 year old who makes straight A's and plays ice hockey. He is extremely busy but only has one AP (advanced placement) class the other classes are standard coursework for an 8th grader. He was bumped up into the AP class by his teacher...we (his parents) had nothing to do with it. I know that in our school district the grading is as follows:
90-100% = A
80-89% = B
75-79% = C
70-74% = D
anything below a 70 is considered an F and not passing...we live in Houston, TX. The standards are very high in our school district. I think if my son was struggling as much as your daughter is I'd move him back into the standard coursework and look into getting him some tutoring. Those grades won't get her into college.

Answer 11

You do not say if her grades have slipped in this quarter. Overall I think the English could use some work, but she has a really strong B going. Honours subjects are a little tougher, is she happy in the program, does she seem to be struggling?