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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went through this, so I feel for you OP. Well, twice, but the first was a bit different.

I come from a family that values education ALOT. Most have masters degrees. I'm hardly the only one with a PHD. And to make it worse, my eldest is an addict and has been in/out of jail for the past 5 years, so everyone was looking to my younger DS to succeed. He didn't want to go to college, straight A student, but always struggled with motivation. So we pushed him way too much to go off to college.

He's a junior now, and it looks like he is going to be dropping out next semester. The lack of motivation int ha, and while he has scraped by with a 3.0, he has struggled. Probably the only reason he stuck it out so long was he met a friend that pushed him to do his work, but he just struggles. I wish three years ago I hadn't forced him to go to college. [/quote]

What type of school did he go to? big university, small SLAC,? did he take a full load? did he do anything else to build motivation and responsibility like Outward Bound?[/quote]

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