Take any comments about suicide or self-destructive behavior seriously. She is quite intelligent and sometimes very mature for her age. I would like see if there is a way to communicate with her to see if she can figure out why she does not want to do her homework and study for tests. Thank you very much for your time. Your daughter is at both a difficult and a critical age for school.
Many children find the transition to a middle school or junior high school particularly troublesome.
They feel overwhelmed and lost. The result is sometimes that they give up and start failing. That will give you some other people's perspective on what's going on. This is because she's feeling uncomfortable talking about this stressful subject. This will help you develop ways to talk about what's really bothering her.