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[quote=Anonymous]Our 15 year old boyis a 9th grader at a public school and simply does not care about his grades. He cares about sports and friends, but considers school work just an inconvenience.  He has decent grades (a few As, lots of Bs, and a C+) but could have consistent A's if he put in a decent amount of serious effort.  When my DH and I try to talk to him he just blows us off and refuses to discuss.  His friends are nice kids, but do not take school work seriously and are a bad influence in this respect.  We arranged a tutor for the subject where he is getting a C+ but he refused to go.  We have tried giving consequences (loss of cell phone, grounding) but then he retaliates by putting in even less effort.  We have considered pulling him out of sports, but that is the biggest positive in his life, and if we take that away, we worry that he would turn to kids who are a bad influence in terms of drugs/alcohol, which (so far) he has stayed away from.  We feel like hostages because we care about his grades but he does not.  What to do???  [/quote]

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