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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]He is lazy, and hard to deal with.
Gets C+s to Bs
Participates in 1 extracurricular, though hasn't been to a meeting in weeks
Has done the minimum to graduate, 1 AP course, and minimum service hours.
Has gotten to a low-tier college (How IDK, as I would not accept him, and I'm his mom!)

-here's the big one-

Expects us to pay for a portion of the cost of college.

There is NO WAY I am going to pay a half of his college fees, no way. He has not shown us that he is ready, and has never held down a job in his life (he did, after DH insisted, get one at one point. Didn't last long though). We aren't rich, and while we could probably afford to help out with the half, I don't want to see him go then just flander, wasting our money and time. I've made this clear to him multiple times over the past four years-that we were not going to help him pay unless his grades improved dramatically-and he is still begging, because he is too damn lazy to get a job even now. When we ask how he will pay his share, he says that he will get a job in college, and that will do it.

So, my question: Is it really worth the money to send him off to school? Or should I get him the Giant Grocery store application so he can join the workforce, not that anyone would hire him.[/quote]

Does he have any passions, does he have good SATs? DH was like this and now pulls in 200k after BS and MS degrees doing software dev and systems design. Basically he feels like he is doing  things that challenge and interested him where as high school's general subjects bored him[/quote]OP here: Nope, no passions, unless you call that fucking video game he plays "competitively" (can you believe you can play a video game competatively? *rolls eyes*)

His SATs were not great, maybe average, a bit below. [/quote]

Actually, you can play video games competitively

[url]http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/31/technology/esports-explosion-brings-opportunity-riches-for-video-gamers.html?_r=0[/url]
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