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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]16 year-terrible grades, terrible (nonexistent?) study skills, blames everyone but himself for anything that goes wrong. Very oppositional!! Many tears (privately of course) have been shed over this boy. However, there has been some improvement in his attitude over the last few months.  
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I will join you in misery. I'm the OP of a recent thread about my DD failing school. Well, my plan to allow her to take personal responsibility backfired and she's going to repeat the 10th grade. She wants to fit in, won't do her work because she wants to look cool and won't ask for help when she's confused because she doesn't want to look dumb (so, in turn, she doesn't turn in work). I'm at my WIT'S END and thinking the only solution at this point is homeschooling. I've talked to her until I'm blue in the face about her low self-esteem but unless she wants to change, there's really nothing else I can do except remove her from the environment.

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Homeschooling?  When we had some medical problems with our kid, it looked likely to go that way. I think it might have killed us both.  good luck to you.
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