Of course I won't but I am very, very cross about it. She got 2 Ds, 2 Es and 3 Fs FFS. All through secondary we have had problems with her being disruptive at school, getting detentions, calls about her not doing her homework or engaging with the lessons, getting into spats with other girls about stuff which did not involve her (sticking up for friends).
She was forecast for 3Cs, 2Ds and 3Es which was bad enough but we hoped she would get the extra C through the exams to get into the college course that she was so excited about doing and which we have supported her in doing even though I have my doubts (performing arts) but I wanted her to do something she enjoyed.
We have lectured her, given her 'pep talks', taken away privileges, shouted, screamed at her and now we have the end result - totally crap grades so she will not be able to do the college course she wanted to do and will have to spend the next year retaking as many as possible at a cost to us. I even frogmarched her to maths club one day as she was so behind but she refused to go again and I could'nt do that every bloody week. Ditto homework club/science club.
She has never been diagnosed with any SENs, her teachers have always stated that she is very bright and would do fine if she would just shut up and listen. She seems to have disengaged with reality and decided that she was going to become a singer/rapper so school was not important. She spends hours writing rap lyrics and listening to that bloody Iggy Azalea (most annoying songs ever). She has even insisted that she will be moving to LA as soon as she is 18 and do whatever it takes to become a 'sooperstarrr' 
and I fully support her in that 'dream' and hope she can achieve it (not by moving to LA and living in the bins waiting to be discovered though 
) but she needs to at least get some qualifications first!
I could bloody shake her very hard. She thinks she knows everything. Aaaarrrrgggh. Any suggestions on what to do with her?
AIBU?
DD totally fucked up her GCSEs. AIBU to tell her 'I told you so'?
TeenTwinsToddlerandTiaras · 25/08/2013 21:01
Brilliant update OP
So pleased your daughter has done well despite her initial GCSE grades.
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Thanks for the update OP!
I was reading the first few pages and realised it was from 2013 and wondered who was posting on an 8 year old thread
Glad it was you 
ZOMBIE THREAD RESURRECTED again!
I am the OP and thought I’d update again as I can’t sleep (damn peri menopause 
) so thought I’d look up old threads of mine as it’s always interesting to read them years later when things have moved on and other parents may be going through a similar situation now.
In 2016 I posted that DD has gone on to do a Level 2 & 3 BTEC course and had really buckled down (after a shaky start where they were going to kick her out!) and got enough merits and distinctions in her Level 3 course to go to Uni. She completed Uni with a 2:1 degree and within a month of graduating got a job with one of the big 4 financial firms in London. She very luckily got the job before Covid hit, her job has been secure and she’s just had her 2nd promotion!
Sadly she rarely sings anymore (except if there’s karaoke!) and her dream of being a singer is long forgotten but I am still shocked at the trajectory she got herself on compared to where I thought she might end up when she left school with such shit grades!
Hope this gives some parents hope if they are in the same situation I was.
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