To do my daughters GCSE course work?

Strongly recommend the pp suggestion to draw it upside down. I find it really helps.

Or just submit her own work however poor. You said yourself that it's one picture in 100 so won't make much difference.

Don't teach your child that cheating and dishonesty is OK.

This thread is ridiculous. Your title is ‘AIBU to do my daughter’s GCSE course work?’ Since then, you’ve tried to minimise the ‘doing the coursework’ to writing out a few dates on post it notes and sitting with her. So which is it? Are you doing her coursework or not?

as many of us have pointed out, it’s not helpful to any child to be pushed into a position of lying, signing to confirm their work is all their own when they know it isn’t. Don’t patronise your daughter.. she knows what’s hers and what isn’t.

neither is it good for a child to not be able to cope with not being amazing at every subject or task. So what if she struggles with art? It’s a life lesson to learn we can’t all succeed at everything and to accept that with good grace.

I would feel I was letting myself down as a parent if I submitted something of mine rather than their own work. Just let her put in hers. Encourage, praise the best effort and reassure that this is the right thing to do. Then be proud of her on results day for all her subjects, as long as she’s tried her best.

I’ve got a feeling though that you’ve already made your mind up what you’re going to do so I don’t really understand the point of posting.

and yes, I’ve also had a neurodivergent child go through GCSEs and A levels, it’s not easy knowing how to support but doing it for them isn’t the answer

So I read the title and thought YABU, however I think you are absolutely fine. I wouldn't tell anybody of course but you have tried to support and she's don't 99% herself. When I did my GCSEs I was called up last minute to represent the country on sport , which made me miss making a display for my graphics GCSE. The class helper made if for me under instruction of the teacher!! I had done 99% and this was just an extra thag was needed but not an important piece, very similar to your situation with the portrait here

But you are still doing her work for her………. still wrong

If she won't be carrying on Art, I would tell her that she can submit almost anything and it will be Ok.
Show her what you have done, get her to try and redo a copy of what you have done and remind her this is the last time she will need to do this.
Feed her what ever makes her happy put some great music on and keep reminding her one less stroke to finish the demon project..... give it a name, and remind her soon it will be finished, perfect is not need, just you get it done....

I worry for young people because they are growing up in a world where it is so easy to cheat and for it to undetectable. I abhor the kind of thing you suggest op because it doesn't help with the development of the brain at all. Struggle and challenge are part of being human. As I understand it these challenges can be magnified for people with ADHD, but there are resources to help them. You would be better off seeking out these strategies than teaching her how to cheat.

Well my boss has done his son's A level geography coursework and was proudly saying he'd got an A in it!!

I think it goes in a lot but lots of people just don't admit to it.

A lot of posters on MN are fixated on children having to do everything by themselves with no help or encouragement. Real life isn't like that- the lucky children are helped and supported by their parents. You shouldn't do the work for her, but supporting and encouraging her is fine and to be commended.

You are teaching your daughter that you love her and are there for her. That is the best life lesson she can get, that she is loved.

Oh @Thingsthatgo you should teach me to draw. Observation drawing first then illustration. Please. It's the one thing n life I want to do but self learning and adhd are not pals

Totally misses the point

No they’ve deemed a prompt appropriate. What you’re doing is not a prompt.

And what absorb the child with SEN whose parent doesn’t do their work for them? It’s creating an unfair playing field.
I do understand your frustrations but at the end of the day, it’s better to have unfinished work than work finished by a parent.
I can remember tutoring back in the day and a parent offered me £200 to do their child’s coursework for them. It’s not the same thing, but it goes against so much to produce a child’s work in this way.

Any student discovered to have cheated potentially risks having ALL their exams disqualified.

It’s probably for Component 1, that can be worked on until the school’s internal deadline for marking.

What’s the point? She’ll always know you did it for her, how does it help her long term?

I teach secondary art. I would recommend googling ‘proportions of face for drawing’ or similar. It will show you how to put in some guidelines to help your DD understand where the features should go. If the portrait isn’t facing forward you can Google ‘looking to the left’ etc.
I use it all the same for myself when drawing, as well as showing the students I teach.
If you sketch them in lightly with a pencil, you can rub them out at the end, or they disappear with the shading.
If the features are in proportion and in the right place it makes an enormous difference to the finished drawing.

Please don't. It's cheating and is dishonest. Why should the work of an adult be compared to that of a sixteen year old?
And I'll happily declare my vested interest here, my daughter did art GCSE last year and is doing A level this year. All of her work is her own.

In all honesty, if she’s not doing anything related to art in college if she doesn’t submit this piece and fails this subject - there will be no impact on her in the future. As long as she understands the consequences, just leave it. It’s not worth the upset honestly. Lee her focus on what she’s good at ❤️

You're creating a narritive that doesnt exist.

Par for the course on here!

Absolutely this. You are getting a lot of judgement on here. My DD has ASD & ADHD and presents with huge demand avoidance. We aren't quite at exams stage yet but watching her with homework is heartbreaking at times, sometimes she literally can't get the words on the page (lots of screwed up paper here too!)
When she will let me I'll type while she dictates, this is also something allowed in exams as a reasonable adjustment.
You are doing your absolute best, this is not cheating, this is attempting to guide your child through a school system that causes huge trauma to many ND kids in so many different ways.

I was about to say, just get it done and get on with it but then I thought that the way grades are given in the UK, you may be cheating other students away from a passing grade so my advice is…

Instead of cheating reassure her that no one is good at everything, that she is unlikely to fail the course, that she doesn’t need it as she doesn’t plan to study art and for the same reason, that nobody would care about her grade. You don’t show your GCSE certificates when applying for a job.

Personally, your kid is not going through a uniquely difficult assignment due to her ADHD. The adhd doesn’t help but believe me, there are hundreds of art GCSE students crying or pulling their head out at this time, it is a very demanding and time consuming gcse, yet many students that join it, they choose it because they think it will be easy or just like a crafts leisure class.

My son is studying a science degree in a top ten university, he got a 4 in German and I can assure you, nobody cares… and for what is worth he still know more German than most people so.. it is all about helping them to gain perspective.

It's one piece of work. If this was repeated, then yeh I would say you aren't teaching her good things for the long term but in this case, one piece of work won't effect her long term

I understand why you are motivated to do it, but I think the issue will be that a) your DD may one day tell people that the work was not hers which may create all sorts of fall-out and b) because she knows it is not hers, it will undermine her self esteem and feed the sense of failure you are trying to avoid.

It’s not an essential GCSE for her future plans, having 8 GCSEs rather than 9 is immaterial at UCAS level, I would simply sit with her and say that if she want to bail on this one and focus on her other GCSEs (which I assume she needs to be revising for right now), I’d tell her you support dumping this one. Sometimes making decisions - to prioritise the rest of her GCSEs and park this one because it is adding a layer of stress she cannot manage right now - is the sensible and adult way.

It’s unfortunate that you’ve not got an Autism diagnosis in hand as it would have provided scope for an extension and other accommodations… but in the grand scheme of things GCSEs are really not that important once you have A Levels/degree. They are just a stepping stone to those qualifications… and sometimes you need to side step or jump over the odd stone along the way.

No way! It’s cheating. She needs to learn to get things done by the deadline and not have temper tantrums and screw things up. That won’t be tolerated in the workplace. She will just get fired.

In which case OP, just do whatever is needed to get this done and off her mind today. If that's you doing a starter sketch and her finishing then do that.
Her SEN means that if she's fixated on this then she won't be doing other revision etc so theres a bigger picture here. Just help her over the line