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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What we told our kids was if they showed us they had a B average or higher we'd keep paying. If they were in danger of having less than a B, we expected them to seek out tutoring through the school or ask for money to hire one. [b]If they had less than a B for more than one semester, they had to switch to an in-state school. [/b]They always told us their grades. 
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OP, I hope you will dismiss this post, above. Setting a hard GPA requirement like this, and setting it to apply to a very specific time frame (one semester) is incredibly arbitrary and inflexible.

Sure, maybe this "less than a B for one semester and you'll be turfed out of your chosen college and forced to switch" parent will say it worked fine for them, but it leaves zero flexibility for things that can happen in the real world.

There can be one class that is a "weed-out" course where the professor intentionally grades "hard" to eliminate students from the major. There can be a semester where other, tougher classes took precedence and one class slipped down. There can be grades which should be red flags for being in the wrong major (not being lazy or partying), or red flags for a health crisis (mental or physical). There can be grades where a student just screwed up and learned a lesson from that, but the lesson can't be applied if the student is summarily removed from that college and punished -- yes, the student will see it as punishment -- by being forced to another college with zero discussion or appeal.

I'm not talking about a student who's partying and making excuses, but about a student who might have legit reasons, academic or personal, for two semesters of a GPA below B. And that parent doesn't say if the automatic "transfer to in-state school" deal kicks in only if those two semesters are consecutive, or if mom and dad will pull the plug on that college if the GPA slips but it happens once in freshman year and again in juior year or whatever....

Parents who have good communication with their college student children don't have to be that arbitrary. Maybe if a kid has a long HS track record of partying or never communicating about academic problems, I can see this level of rule-making. But otherwise, it just treats the student as able to control every single aspect of every course for four years, and it treats the student as unable to bounce back from less than a B.[/quote]

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