It's funny, DD has gotten a D before and been happy about it. Cos its a PASS after all

She does know what she wants to do after VCE and that does make it easier for me (!) when it comes to the guidance part of it...
There will be a few different open days coming up, you might like to go together and see what takes her fancy?
It might be good for clarity and inspiration, but you are right - at only 16 its pretty hard to know what you want to do. She might think about doing several DIFFERENT things, but that's ok, it just means to keep her subject selection pretty broad for yr 11.

I'd try to keep her there, average marks aren't bad marks and it's a big scary world.

We have the deal that I will support my DD through Uni (staying at home etc), low board etc, if she wants to leave school the rent goes up and she doesn't get school holidays. Oooh that sounds like blackmail doesn't it
But it's not - just the way it will be in the real world....