How do I convince my parents to lower their standards on my grades?

Even if you don’t care, thank goodness your parents DO - they want to see you be a success and have every opportunity in life for growth, happiness, and have the finer things in life - bottom line: they CARE (loving you and looking after your best interests) - many,many have to grow up in a non-caring environment - be Thankful !!

Well lilmisschatterbox! You asked for advice, and got some damn good replies. If you were SMART you would take these into consideration. But hey, do whatever you please. Just don’t think you’ll ever be successful. You better hope you marry really rich.

Hey, at least you’ll be flipping patties for me in a couple years! Mmm..

Trust me dude…aim for the stars atleast u’ll reach the sky…

I don’t think your parents are being to strict at all! My brothers the same way you are with wanting to hang out with friends instead of doing school work. Do you want to fail? If you did that the friends you do hang out with will most likely make fun of you and you won’t even see them in school anymore in classes. Plus your parents could do worse things like ground you until the next report card where you can’t go outside or talk on the phone or go on the computer, other than for homework, etc. My cousins’ parents do that if they even get below a 90, A in any class, so your extremely lucky! My brother can’t even go outside of his room other than to eat and go to the bathroom when my parents ground him and thats only for a week at the most becauze of him getting C,D, and F’s. Your parents are only trying to look out for your future, and I’m pretty sure you don’t want your friends to see you working at a fast food restaurant when your 30+ years old. Yeah I agree skateboarding is fun to do with friends but you know how hard it is to even get a career in that? 1 out of about a million just like singing and acting in movies; very few people get in to the “system”. Yes, have fun but do it after your homeworks done and you’ve studied for a test for at least 10 mins, thats not a lot is it? Some people get it naturally but others have to work for the grades they want to achieve and be proud of the good grades there getting. I hope you take this into consideration, FunMail me if you need help! I’ll help you as much as I can and if you even need a question for school I’m on everyday. I can explain it to you so you do understand. Let me know how your doing. Good Luck!

                                                                                                                  ~Alanna

Your parents aren’t being strict, they’re being good parents despite what you may think. Going to bed at a decent hour will help raise your grades a LOT. I remember 8th grade.. school was definitely not a priority. Think of it this way.. do you want to be able to even afford a skateboard when you’re older? You need a GOOD JOB. How do you get one of those? Oh yeah, a highschool diploma.. better yet, college. Don’t make the mistake I made, start really caring about your schoolwork NOW because it’s just going to get MUCH harder with each grade you go into. Dropping out in 8th grade makes absolutely no sense at all. Yeah, you’ll MOOCH off your parents for a few years. Then what!!?!?!

Your loss. My parents didn’t even consider Bs to be a good efford. Focus on one thing at a time: instead of worrying about everything.. just make sure you turn in every single assignment on-time. Don’t worry about test/quiz grades until you have the homework thing down. Then continue to add onto it until you’ve totally gotten your school work under control. PLEASE TAKE MY ADVICE it will save you lots of pain down the road. I felt the exact same way as you when I was your age. Don’t make a mistake you WILL regret!

ok ur being stupid not them.. i hate skool to but i want to get a job that i enjoy when i grow up.i don’t want to work at mcdonalds all my life and earn like … plus u can first drop put in highskool. ur in 8th grade if u fail u will have take 8th grade over and over again..might as well make at least c now get into 9th grade and than drop out.

do not drop out! u may hate it but just get by. My step-mom droped out of 8th grade. she did drugs for 3 years she is 20 now and 5 years clean. Do u realy wanna wind up doing drugs, emo, and stupid? just put up with it. If u can’t do that then ur weak, mentely, and physicly. so if u wanna drop go a head be a poor bum and even for 1 grade.

thanks for the advice i appreciate it but im not trying to raise my grades idc about them. im trying to get my parents to lay off. my grades are not going to get better or worse because im not spending any more time on school thnai do now and im not going to psend less time cause then i wont pass 8th grade.

im in the same situation youre in! my parents wont lay off either! My mom thinks that im smart enough to get A’s, but I know for a FACT that I an NOT capable of those grades. She thinks that because my sister has learning problems, that I am perfectly capable of these grades; but my mom just wont accept the fact that her expectations are wayyy too high for me to accomplish. I think that all parents have high expectations for their kids, and they want to plan out the future for them. But if I were you, I would tell them that it’s your life and you should be in controll of it.

well, honestly I think your parents have a point. if you get an f it means you’re failing to learn. they don’t want that, they want you to succeed. so, listen to your parents. going to the skate-park is a privilege you must earn. and 1 30 am is way to late to go to bed. that means you only get 5 hours of sleep. (if you get up at 6 am.) even if your not tired, thats still not healthy. if you are a teenager than you need to understand that during this time, you need sleep! anyway, if you dont care, then you will care once they take your tv away and make you go to bed “early” but I have to go to bed at 9, my friends have to go to bed at 830 so be happy that you get what you get. and a study group would be a good idea 2!

You say you care more about hanging out with your friends than school , right? Well, here’s a thought: why not gather up with those buddies and have a little study group? This way, you’ll be haning out and learning from each other at the same time! Look, you are not stupid, ok? You say that you don’t care but the truth is that you do. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be asking all these people for help. Be honest with yourself. You do care and you do want to do well. It’ll take time and effort, but it isn’t impossible to do. Whether or not you decide to take my or anyone elses’ advice is totally up to you, but hey, we all want what’s best for you and we are only trying to make you realize that an education is important. Do you really want to find that out the hard way?