You can't make this up!
This is a perfect example of why I have had to accept disengagement and detach. YSD completely failed the first marking period. 1. Due to her complete lack of effort 2. Because her parents blissfully ignored the problem.
Now that the school has done absolutely everything they can in their end. Attending M-Th in person and one to one online tutoring with her teachers every Friday. Neither parent has bothered to do anything to make sure she is doing her work or checking. Which is maybe 1-2 assignments a day. This Friday BM let her stay at a friend's house and skip her tutoring. The only one who is going to suffer is the kid, but from my perspective both parents should be the ones to get some kind of consequence at this point.
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First I'd bring up the
First I'd bring up the concern to you SO without emasculating him. Maybe gently remind him how hard it is to get out of a hole once in.
How is your relationship with your SD? Do you share any common interests?
YSD and I have a good
YSD and I have a good relationship. But it's so complicated. Because we basically have to have a relationship in secret because her mother punishes her if she finds out. So the poor kid has anxiety. An example is she was screamed at, and her mother told her she could live with me and I could be her new mother. Because I scheduled an eye appointment for her to see why she kept getting headaches every day after school. I wasn't even the one who took her, her father did.
It's just ridiculous that she cares more about her power and control than her actual children. She would never share the medical info with SO, or Thier personal documents. But she wouldn't take them for medical care either. Last year YSD couldn't start school until she was up to date on her shots but she hadn't been to a Primary care in 6 years. I had to get all that for SO because he had no idea he had the right to ask for it and get it himself.
He's emasculated himself by
He's emasculated himself by failing to be a father. OP, you can't do anything if they don't care.