After my 15yr old Granddaughter was bullied at school my Daughter pulled her out for home schooling. I bought the textbooks, but after a year it was obvious that my Daughter was not home schooling her in any way and my Grandaughter just fell into a do nothing gamehead mode with no parental supervision by either my Daughter or her stepfather. Well eventually a big family problem brewed up and I ended up bringing my Grandaughter to live with me and her Grandmother. In about 8 months with just some help and nudging she studied up and passed her GED tests and received her diploma at 16 yrs old. She went into the community college on her 17th birthday and today is in her last 2 months of her freshman year studying pre-nursing to get into the nursing school. By age 18 this summer, just after this semester she will have accumulated 25 credit hours of her Nursing pre-requisites, she already passed her certification tests and has her Nursing Assistant state certification. Public schools just don’t help the flounderers and lazy parents who pull their kids out and don’t push and help them just let them flounder further. It can be done, it’s not easy for the parents/guardians or the kids, but it can be done and achieves results that the kids never thought they could achieve.
There’s no substitute for parental - or grand-parental - love and involvement.
God bless you for helping her.