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[quote=Anonymous]It sounds like school really isn’t serving your kid well. I sympathize. My kid has above average intelligence but a slew of learning disabilities that make school a total slog. He is a junior now and has good insight into his own behavior, and has said that the only reason he cares enough not to fail is that it matters to us that he not fail, so he gets mostly Cs. If he worked hard he could get many As and lots of Bs. But he hates it, so he won’t.

In your shoes I might consider the GED and then community college courses. Maybe he would enjoy a course on Linux? I don’t know that my kid would pass a GED exam, and he loves his high school sports teams and wants to go to college so he can play his sport…otherwise I might go the GED/vocational training route.

It’s really scary to step off the regular path and let your kid do something else. I find it especially hard because both my husband and I are hyper educated egg heads, and my family of origin has some pretty messed up educational snobbery. I have to fight with myself to not act out of snobbery and fear.[/quote]

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