Need ideas and support. Son dismissed from college.

Shrinkrap
Sun, 24 Jun 2012 16:20:46 +0000

Welcome to the club, and best wishes to your family.

http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/parents-forum/1263136-parents-engineering-freshman.html?highlight=parents+freshman+engineering

Most feedback I have gotten here has been quite helpful, even when it hurts.

Son had to repeat pre calculus as a freshman, and had to drop an engineering class second semester. Son is on his way to summer school today, back at his private. He was unable to get into a CCC.

BTW, at my kids school, NOT a highly ranked one, you pretty much had to have had significant accommodations in high school to get accommodations in their college.

Also;

“Yes, they help. And yes, the are best we have right now, but I won’t the paint the picture you did. ADD continues to be problem even with the medications.”

Agreed. My son’s problems were mainly behavioral growing up, and the meds helped quite a bit in that regard, although they did “make him boring”, and he “couldn’t have any fun”. For him it was more about being a C or D, or suspended student vs a B student, at least until he got VERY motivated late in sophomore year. This is true for most of the kids I treat as well.