My freshman year, I failed "Into to Algebra 1", took it again my sophmore year, this time they just passed me, then in my junior year, I naturally failed "Intro to Algebra 2" and would have had to have taken it again my senior year except they cried uncle with me and put me in a "Just please learn THIS math so you can function in the world" class.
I amazingly learned a LOT in this class that I had missed in my younger years.
I struggled with math too, but I still managed to pull mostly As and Bs (my high school was really not very academically challenging). But I dropped math as soon as I knew I had enough requirements for college. The guidance counselor (a former math teacher) wasn't happy about that (she's the one who told my sister with the MSW that she wasn't college material). The guidance counselor also ignored the fact that for our school I got the second highest score on the math portion of the SAT (when in doubt, pick "C")
We've been making some inquiries and wife has met an admissions counselor from Virginia Tech. We can work with the math as long as he has enough credits.
What has become more evident in the past year is that he excels in certain areas. He was asked to be part of the percussion ensemble (only about 8 students) instead of playing in the regular concert band. He's doing really well with the production. Spanish teacher says he's doing well this year.
And I've actually seen him take the initiative to get some projects done. That's progress.
Once we've mastered actually doing the work then we'll work on quality.