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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I remember my GPA slipping just below the threshold for my scholarship in college.  [b]My mom basically said I needed to fix it or else no more school for me.[/b]  I called my counselor and teacher of the class that I got the lowest grade in and tried to work something out.  She let me rewrite a paper over the summer and send it in for reconsideration.  I did all of this BY MYSELF.  I ended up getting the grade raised enough to keep the scholarship and learned that I better get my sh!t together if I wanted to stay in school.  It never happened again.

Let go, people.  You are NOT helping your kids by hovering this much.[/quote]

Your mom knew this either because she had access to your grades or you told her.  That's all that most of these parents are doing, monitoring and being aware at a macro level.  My DSS went off to college and partied hard.  DH and his ex didn't keep an eye via the portal, and asking DSS how it was going the answer was always that stuff was fine, and it wasn't until no tuition charges appeared for the next semester that they learned he had been academically suspended for a semester.  Went DSS eventually went back to college, we told DSS that he needed to take out loans in his name, and if he graduated successfully we would help pay them off, but he needed to have some financial skin in the game this second time around.

DH learned from that mistake and we'll do things differently this time. Our other kids go off to college in a few years.  We will keep an eye on midterms and finals to offer the type of advice that PP's mother did.  We also will probably require a certain minimum GPA to continue getting our financial support otherwise they too will need to take out loans or take on jobs to pay their own tuition.[/quote]

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