Sorry Corin. I failed Washington State History in high school, which was a particular bummer because mom was friends with the teacher. I pulled some other frap too, but in the end, I turned out OK.
I failed a class, once, at community college - it seriesly wasn't my fault. Mostly. It was partly online and the professor didn't bother to actually get the assignments to the ones of us who took it just online... a 1-credit waste of time class. I should have protested but I was 16 and stupid.
Fortunately it didn't prevent me from getting into grad school!
Oh, I know he'll turn out okay. I had my own failures in high school and a couple in college.
BUT, the issue here is that he has a dream of playing football for Virginia Tech. There are two realities here:
1) He is not good enough as a football player (especially a lineman) to get recognized for a scholarship, or to even be recruited. If he got admitted to Virginia Tech there is a strong possiblity he could walk on. Linemen have some success at doing that, however...
2) To get into Virginia Tech, he has to have a 3.5 GPA. There's no way around that.
This is HIS dream. His mom and I would prefer he go to our alma matter. Still, we'd like to help make this happen for him, or at least give him a competitive shot.
Something is not connecting to make him see that he has to work for this.
I don't know, I mean, look who you married. ;^D
(ducks back out of thread!)