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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Here's my late-bloomer anecdote.

My male cousin was a jerk, a slacker with mostly Cs, and off and on pothead and boozer all through high school. His parents were mortified. He spent two years at a community college, then three years at a state university. Then another three years at an honestly mediocre law school.

He's now a successful hometown lawyer with a pretty wife and cute kids. He is even a trustee at his alma mater.

But dig deeper and k-12 he attended great private schools, he played 2 or 3 sports, he's handsome, charming, and nobody ever considered him dumb. His parents are also professionals, so he had all the safety nets and connections that come with that.

My point is to remain skeptical of anecdotes who act like its easy or normal to late bloom. It's really difficult to bounce back once you fall through the cracks and you're in "dummy track" courses in high school and you're around low-achieving peers most of the day for 9th-12th who don't give a shit about their futures. Falling behind in school usually leads to being forever behind. It's not anything a parent should be nonchalant about.[/quote]

Late bloomer fallacy is magical thinking from coping parents. Most losers remain losers, most winners remain winners. You're pretty baked in the cake by your teens. People don't change, certainly not with the frequently folks in this thread suggest.[/quote]

My father dropped out of high school in 1960. He went to college, got a phD and had a long and very successful career.

Stop being ridiculous.

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good news- clearly an expected outcome. Little known fact, the average educational level attained by high school dropouts is a post secondary degree [/quote]

Seriously. And every other flunkie who scores 15 on the ACT earns a bachelor's degree! Who knew?! Haha.[/quote]

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