<p>I’ve gotten mainly good grades over my high school career (mainly A’s and B’s, with only a couple C’s as part of the quarter grades). However, my parents have lately seemed to be getting mistrustful of me because I’ve been screwing up lately, such as impersonating another student via e-mail sophomore year and keeping them in the dark for certain things and not telling them until the last minute. The situation seemed to be improving, then today they got a letter from my school saying that I had been placed on academic probation as my average was an F in AP Chem.</p>
<p>My AP Chem teacher was pretty difficult and assigned heavy amounts of homework. I had an A- first quarter, but started to slack off and not hand in assignments on time. Although I started to make up some of my missed assignments, my teacher hadn’t updated the quarter average in time for the midpoint of the quarter. Although AP Chem is known to be one of those tough classes offered at my high school, with a bunch of people getting C’s and B-'s (you were lucky to have a B-), an F was in the gradebook at the midpoint of the quarter.</p>
<p>Even though I had an F at the time, it was eventually upped to a C- now; however I didn’t tell my parents because I didn’t think it was that serious since I knew my grade would be upped, but they found out anyway when they got the letter.</p>
<p>We talked about it, and discussed how little trust there was between me and my father and the issues I had in communicating with my parents, since I rarely communicate with them (often I do it via e-mail more than face-to-face). My father also conversed with me privately, and said that he can’t trust me to go far away to schools such as U-Pitt, U-Michigan, and Georgia Tech. We’ve had this conversation before, and they’ve said they don’t want me to go far away because of distances and that they’re worried I might become more irresponsible and fail classes and all that stuff. Now, with this academic probation situation, it seems they have another reason to not trust me going far away. Since they now have another reason to believe I’m immature, any suggestions as to what I could do to gain their trust back?</p>