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(grin) What I finally had to tell on of my sons about not trying in school -
You don't have to try hard. There are jobs in life for people who don't try hard. Like riding around on the back of a garbage truck.
Your friends don't care if you do poorly because it makes them look better.
Now, there's probably one person who really cares that you do well - your grandmother - because you are 3rd generation at this school and ma maw doesn't want to be know as the ma maw of a dummy.
He got moving and we never had to push him again.