How Should Parents Handle a Bad Report Card

• Get in trouble 
• Get told setting up conference
• Meet w/teacher
• Figure out what needs to be done
• On child's butt until grade is better

        That’s what some kids get when there grades are acceptable. Most parents can never understand the grading system A, B, C, D, F. And now it’s will be even more confusing with grades changing to E, P, D, I, N. Nor do they understand that in the beginning of the year their childrens grade will look bad because there is barley anything in there. Sometimes kids get a bad grade on something that won’t even count in the final grade. How do we make parents understand all this? Several kids tend to even hide there report cards if they have a bad grade all because there parents wouldn’t be happy with it. “You can only have A’s” “ Anything below an A your grounded and no phone till you get it back up”  It really depends on the parents if you think about it. At point however their is probably a several kids who wish there parents could understand. Wishing they could understand that their child took all the steps they could but it still wasn’t enough. Can’t parents first ask “what is bad grade on then proceed on to what was the problem to make you do poorly on it then try to help. Not your grounded give me your phone. Just the stress of trying to get a good grade can be part of getting the bad grade. How would you want your parents to react?