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[quote=Anonymous]You don’t say why you switched his school but that does seem to be the trigger for the change. You also don’t say if returning to the old school is an option. Finally you aren’t clear as to what type of school - mainstream public, special needs program, advanced studies program, private . . .

Agree that the school isn’t going to help. You’re on your own here. That leaves two options. Either try punishment or structure his life for success. If you’re going to punish, it needs to be severe enough to make it worth changing.

As to restructuring his life, that’s a lot of hard work and very time consuming. I’m f you want to go hard core, then you have to do all drop offs and pick ups from school and sign him out for lunch. You have to set up other life opportunities for his success - someone mentioned church but classes, ice skating lessons, art classes, whatever else you can think of will do. You need to take the phone if he has one so you can cut off all contact that you don’t approve of. I could continue but you get the drift. It’s really hard to do but if your kid is going down a bad path and you aren’t successful in stopping it, you’re in for a whole lot worse. [/quote]

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