<p>Yayverily, my son is doing great. The best choice he ever made was to quit college and spend some time in the work world, and the best choice I ever made was to lay down very specific requirements for continued support and cut off the flow of $$ when he opted not to meet those requirements. (It wasn’t failure on his part, it was a choice). My son has been entirely self-supporting since the age of 20; he is graduating this year with excellent prospects for employment, and less than $2K in outstanding student loans, which he intends to pay off immediately after graduation, even before interest starts to accrue. So I’m better off financially and so is he. </p>
<p>But the point is… despite the parents on this thread who keep proclaiming that their kids tell them everything while at the same time lording it over everyone else how much they respect their kid’s “privacy”… some of us have kids whose notion of “privacy” means that they don’t tell their parents everything. I don’t expect my kids to tell me everything; I do expect that if I am paying for college then I will see the information that will go on transcripts, and I am quite happy to get that directly from the registrar’s office. That gives me objective, no-excuses type of information – again, the same sort of info that would be part of any other financial aid process.</p>