What do your parents do about bad grades?

[Matt Crawford]

I'm 18 and a senior in hs...my parents have no say in what I do. I respect their concern, but honestly its my choice what I do. all my stuff is in my name(both cars, all my stuff in my room was paid for by me) So really....besides kicking me out of the house, they cant do anything, and If I did get kicked out, I have places to go.

[SCpoloRicker]

I'm 18 and a senior in hs...my parents have no say in what I do. I respect their concern, but honestly its my choice what I do. all my stuff is in my name(both cars, all my stuff in my room was paid for by me) So really....besides kicking me out of the house, they cant do anything, and If I did get kicked out, I have places to go.

No offense, but having a place to go is different from having a place to stay.

/not personal
//too much 'I'm so self-sustaining' kids lately
///Off my Lawn!

[Lohman446]

No offense, but having a place to go is different from having a place to stay.

/not personal
//too much 'I'm so self-sustaining' kids lately
///Off my Lawn!

But.. But... I'm eighteen, I pay for all my stuff*, I am self sufficient

*the term all my stuff may not include: Rent, electricity, heat, air conditioning, car insurance, food, or the basic necessities of life.

/Was 18 once, has learned to be less arrogant
//It's true - was once worse than now

[sbpyro]

Glad the days of my parents actually caring bout my grades are over. Well maybe the caring bout the grades part, but not the food, bed, and the rest of the things that made life easy. My parents were old school. Neither of them had anything over the equivelent of a middle school education. So to them education was a priority for us even if they had to beat it into me.
I remember getting my first F (in English in the 6th grade, pretty hard when you didn't speak or write english at home). The beating I got was crazy, for a little woman (5ft2 and maybe 100lb soaking wet) my mom dished out an ***-whooping of epic proportion. She broke a duster (think 3ft long piece of rattan bout .5" thick with about 2 ft of feathers), broom handle and finally went to the belt before she got too tired to swing at me. By the end of that year I had managed to pass the class with a B. Now ppl cannot do the same thing but here is the thing I was always a problem child to begin with the duster was a constant form of disipline for me to the point that she would hit me in the leg with it and I barely felt it. Mind you there was a reason why I never picked up baseball.

After I graduated highschool, my parents figured that was as far as I could go academically so they didn't care if I went to college or not (besides they always had my sister as hope for the first in our family to go to college). I did and since they were dirt broke I paid for it myself first by financial aid, and then by working full time while I was at school.
But after 7 years I managed to graduate (no thanks to the pos college I went to).

The things that I learned in college:
1. It is good to have studying skills.
2. The test is based exactly on what the professor wants you to learn. (Sounds stupid but I usually did poor on the first midterm test and then proceeded to aced the following 2 test (2nd mid term and final, and yes I know they should not be called midterms), because I understood how the professor's structure their tests.

3. Good grades can be achieved by cheating (copying homework, puting previous years test answers into your books for open book tests, and using your calculator/phone to hold your answers or equations), but actually learning the stuff is more important. (Case and point this engineer who graduated with a 3.5 GPA copied all his homework and that allow will get you into that range, went to work at a company and had to run a test on a product at 100% humidity, could not achieve the test condition by porting a humidifier into the side of the environmental chamber. So he decides to put the humidifier into the envirnomental chamber for the test. Long story short, I was wrong he did not work better than he does schoolwork.

4. Work hard in college early get into the honors program, they will provide you with everything you need. (couple of fellow class mates were in the honors program and they paid for housing, food, books and spending money in you college account.)

4b. Since I was working long hours and going to school full time my grades dropped. But I had to pay for school and eat. (yes in that order.)

5. So what if you did well in high school, when you start in college those grades don't transfer through. This also applies to popularity, athletic ability, and etc.

6. You are just a number in college, the college does not care about you despite the lies they tell you. (my finanical aid advisor instead of giving me options to take a temporary leave of school for medical issues in my family, told me straight out that I had to prioritize my money to either school or my family) Lets just say that is the tip of the iceberg for all the garbage I had to put up with that so said college.


PM me if you want to stay away from this "college".

[WicKeD_WaYz]

My mom would always leave my report card sitting on the counter so I knew why she was mad and she wouldnt talk to me for a few days usually.

[Stix]

Depends. From an asian perspective (or at least the ones I know), I was let go pretty easy. From the avg. joe perspective, probably a very severe beat down. Had to go to school with long sleeved shirts from time to time if you know what I mean. Had the opposite affect than what was intened however. I hated going to school cuz it would probably mean a beat down. Hated my school work, cuz that was gonna mean a beat down. Hated my peers, because them doing better than me was DEFINATELY going to mean a beat down. Stopped asking parents for help because it would have meant a beat down, or at least a hollering. Petered out in college though.

In any case, I guess the 'rents have learned their lesson; my sister isn't even touched and she's a strait A student in HS.