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.
Since he doesn't seem to want to study a hard science, or be a programmer, I think there's only so much math he needs... just tell him he needs algebra and geometry for the SATs, but nothing more advanced than that. (The reason I didn't get a perfect score on my math SATs was that there were a handful of problems I hadn't seen in four years, having gone on to more exotic maths. But then, I like math. Shoot me.)
Oh, it's so much warmer today. I think it's in the 20s already. Darn, I have nothing to take for lunch...