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When school expects your grieving child to perform normally

My daughter's grades have completely fallen apart since her mom died but the school keeps pushing for normalcy instead of understanding.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Institutional expectations for academic performance ignore the reality that grief fundamentally alters a child's capacity to engage with ordinary demands.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Children and grief — supporting young people?”

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