I can under stand the problem your child is going through, Deb. When I was in high school I got A's and B's on almost every test, but since I very seldom if ever did any home work, C's and D's for a final grade in my classes.

I graduated HS with a 1.9 gpa, but graduated college with a 3.3 gpa ( didn't go to college untill I was 30 btw), while working a full time job also. The empathise was not on home work in college.

Today, if I go to a store to buy something, I find the cashiers don't even have the simple math skills to make change with out the cash register doing it for them. If your bill is $7.57 and you hand the cashier $10.07, they just stare at you like WTF. About half the time you will get back $2.43 + another .07 cents seperately. Then when you hand the change part back to the cashier and ask for 2 quarters........they have to count it all out again, and a lot of the time get that wrong.

The only answer I can think of is to have two or three completely different school systems for the different level of child, but that is unfair to those children also.