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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I promise you he will be fine.  I will always choose smart over doing well in school.  Once he gets to a certain point he'll choose what he wants.  If he really is smart he will do well because he wants better.  He will figure it out.

If he doesn't he will be fine because he will have chosen this.  School is about rules and what you are supposed to do.  Life is not like this necessarily.  Life is about more than just hard work.  The best thing that school can help you with is understanding the value of hard work.  But he will learn this in or out of school at a certain age.

I was like this, my DD is like this and I personally know people like this.  You have to wait until something clicks with drive.

You also don't always need drive to be successful.  You can absolutely figure out how to make a great living without wanting to run the world.  I am the laziest person ever who hates to work.  Everyone who knows me things I'm really driven and ambitious.  They could not be more wrong!  Through a combo of luck and ability, I do very very well.  Nothing to do whatsoever with drive.  There is nothing wrong to work as smart as you can to do well without wanting to work as much as possible.  Smart is the name of the game.  Have some faith in him.

The only thing that negates the above is if it's something about learning disabilities or mental health impacting his abilities.  That's important ti assess.[/quote]

Funny but I would chose working hard and being a good citizen over being smart.

You do have some good tips but that is where I disagree[/quote]

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