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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's not a given that kids show their parent their grades? Oh my! Let me make my 11th grader know now what I'm expecting of her when she enters college. [/quote]

Kids, probably. But except for the rare freshman who is 17, college students are adults. If parents are paying, I suppose it might make some sense to share semester grades, but personally I view paying for college as an investment in my child and not buying either an expectation of certain grades (some classes are hard enough that a C is respectable, whereas in others you practically have to try to sabotage yourself in order to get less than an A) or any control over them. We just let the kids know that we have X amount to pay for their higher education and that after that amount was exhausted they would be on their own and expected to support themselves, barring serious extenuating circumstances.

I had a full ride merit scholarship to cover undergrad (tuition, fees, room & board, plus a few hundred dollars extra per quarter for miscellaneous expenses) and my dad still demanded not only to know my grades on a weekly basis & after every major assignment, but he also expected final say over my major and choice of classes. It was a decidedly unpleasant dynamic, so I made sure to do things very differently with my own kids. 1 has graduated college, one college senior, and my 13 year old has yet to even think about university.
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