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Jr hasn't been removed from football, then?

Not yet, but that's actually after his deadline. We took the tv and Playstation on Monday. His mom communicated with his teachers and will be getting another progress report in a week and a half. If there is no improvement, he will leave the team. He would only miss two regular season games, but they've got a good shot at the playoffs.

Even missing one game would make the point.

Points have to be made sometimes. When I was about 12, there was a period where I did not want to work on my school, and so did badly. My dad made me do schoolwork eight hours a day for three weeks, writing down what I was doing every 15 minutes and showing the pile to him at the end... I got the point. And I never let my academics slide again.

Of course, there was that week I was reading a fantasy series and, er, did nothing but math all week as far as school goes. However I did not get caught - I had three weeks to do my unit, and "took off" week one, so I made everything up. By then I was 16 and, while still irresponsible, a good deal more clever about my irresponsibility.