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After the SAT, my husband and I had a hard but necessary conversation with him. We’ve decided to give him one more shot this summer. He’ll be enrolled in a structured, expensive SAT prep program, and our expectations are clear: he needs to put in real effort, at least 2 hours a day of studying, 5 days a week, and complete weekly practice tests after the course ends. If we see meaningful effort and improvement, we’ll continue supporting a 4-year college path. If not, we’ll be redirecting him toward community college.
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This just sounds like a recipe for making someone who is miserable more miserable. Why are you forcing him into something you want, not him? You say you're "giving him one more shot," but at what? He doesn't want this.

Recently I had a plumbing emergency at my house and it took me all day on the phone, calling 10 different companies before finding someone available to come out to my house at 7pm. That guy made $600. That experience taught me that if I knew a teenager in this town I'd be telling him to become a plumber as they are clearly in shortage. There are many pathways in life that don't involve high SATs and a 4 year college. [/quote]

We have positioned trades as an option. Again with the lack of effort, he won't be successful at anything. We're upset that the only effort he puts forth is into his social life and that he is disillusioned that this type of effort will fly at a 4 year or life in general. He's interested in engineering and we essentially told him that unless he steers the ship around, he's got no shot at being successful in an engineering program because that requires he seeks out tutoring, advocates for himself and puts in the extra time and really focuses. [/quote]

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