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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd be furious at the extra year of tuition, room & board.[/quote]

Yes!!! You should have made clear to him that such financial decisions need to be discussed with the ones who pay!
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While OP should have made that clear, the clarity needed to happen LONG before the DS went away to college.

To OP, if OP is still reading:

I would take a breath and have a serious talk with DS about why he felt he could not share with you, at the time, that the online courses were a problem for him. I don't just mean "ask your permission to drop." I mean, talk with you about why he felt the way he felt about them, what the consequences would be academically and financially, etc. If my own college student did things like drop classes to the extent it would add a year, my first concern would be why my young adult was SO leery about talking to me much earlier in the process.

There may be a lot else going on re: college and your DS's life of which you're unaware, and/or your DS may feel (but not admit he feels) afraid of delivering bad news, or appearing to be a less than ideal student, to you.

The dropped classes, well, that is what it is. You and spouse and DS need to talk about how, going forward, you are all going to communicate far, far better and much earlier. [/quote]

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