Hi Sushee...
I feel that I can relate a little bit to what your daughter is going through.

When I hit grade 10 I wagged so many days it wasnt funny. A lot of it was due to other reasons (I moved out of home halway through year 10), but by the time the end of the year rolled around, I probably had missed well over 4 - 6 months worth of classes.
I was lucky and they were sympathetic of my circumstances, and I still sat my exams and managed to do well...

But I then left the school totally at the beginning of year 11. It just wasn't for me, and there were too many other things going on in my teenager's mind to want to think about schoolwork.

Over the next couple of years I had a few casual jobs, and enrolled in a Flexi school where I could do the schoolwork at my own pace, and managed to complete Snr English and Biology externally just after I turned 18.

And now I am 22, and only this year have felt ready to pull my head in and TRY, and I just have done my STAT test, and other stuff needed to uni entry, so I am all prepared... and quite proud of myself too.

So... what I am trying to say is... although she's not keen on completing school now, its very likely that she will pick up some studies again in a few years - once she realises that you can only go so far in job without having a yr 12 or uni education. Plus she sounds like a very smart girl... which I also think will be one the reasons she will end up realising she needs/wants more education...?

Is there any way she could enrol in a TAFE course that she would be interested in for next year? Or is that too similar to the idea of schoolwork? There really are some interesting courses out there these days!
I really think that encouraging her to get a job and pay rent etc is a good idea and will make her realise the realities of adult life a bit quicker, and she may come to appreciate how easy it really is to be a school student

On top of all of this though... I think completing yr 10 IS important... especially as it will be something to put on her resume for applying for jobs etc. And also if she is wanting to enrol back into school at a later date, the fact that she did not complete yr 10 might be held against her? I'm not sure on this, just speculating?

Goodluck anyway Sushee... and sorry for waffling on a bit here! 8-[