Your teenager's GPA is lower than it should be, you are not sure how it got there, and you do not know which part of it you can still change. This is a working guide for the parent - not a study-skills book for the student.

It starts with the document. How to request the full transcript and gradebook access, what the weighted and unweighted numbers mean, and how to do the arithmetic that shows which two or three courses still move the cumulative figure and which ones no longer can.

Then it gets practical. A four-part audit that separates missing work from low test scores, late penalties and absences. Worded emails that get a missing-assignment list back from a teacher, including the follow-up when the first one is ignored. A counsellor meeting agenda with the questions in order. A twelve-minute conversation that does not end in a slammed door, with replies for a defensive answer, a flat one and tears. A one-hour home block that runs without you standing over it. A twenty-minute weekly review.

You finish by writing one page: your teenager, this term, these courses. The book also marks where it stops - the point at which a plateau is not a behaviour problem and needs a professional instead of another technique.

This book was created with generative AI. The text was generated by an AI system and reviewed and edited before publication.