I'm grounded to "prevent myself from getting bad grades"

[Trogtor]

Yeah, I didn't do so good school wise freshmen year, so my Dad is restricting me from everything Tuesday (When school starts) to prevent it from "happening again"

My Dad refuses to look at my grades until a Report Card/Progress Report which is..


..9 weeks.

I may not know much about parenting but that doesn't sound fair at all.


Also/Edit:
It's really hard for me to work knowing I'll be bored for the rest of the day, which will end up with me not doing it at all.

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[Waru]

jesus christ parents today are incompetent tools

wait no offense though

sorry

[Mikoyan]

jesus christ parents today are incompetent tools

.......how? He's preventing his son from using things that could cause him to procrastinate...

[Vortex]

maybe if you hadn't made bad grades this wouldn't be an issue?

I mean, yeah as a kid it seems really forgeted up and stupid, but all you have to do is just prove to him that hey, I can get perfectly okay grades.

I suggest just trying your hardest and after a week or two confront your dad in a respectful manner just asking for a compromise, if you've been doing your absolute best then he has no reason to keep you grounded, at that point I would say he's just being a douche

[Choi]

It's simple. Get better grades.

[Madmitten]

bet you wont slack again any time soon



lol

[Snuffers_]

thats bullstuff

[Waru]

.......how? He's preventing his son from using things that could cause him to procrastinate...

there are better ways then just taking away all entertainment

and who said he was procrastinating? i dunno details trogtor?

[LeetZero]

I always told myself that if I'd ever get grounded for school reasons and be restricted to do stuff, I would just do whatever got me grounded even more. What will they do then, huh?!

[Ben Grapevine]

It sounds like he is tired of you sucking and wants to actually see you succeed.  You put yourself in this situation.

[Madmitten]

I always told myself that if I'd ever get grounded for school reasons and be restricted to do stuff, I would just do whatever got me grounded even more. What will they do then, huh?!

they'd kick you the forget out like every other parent
or they'd put you in therapy

[Trogtor]

They say that you'll either make it or break it (socially) at school

I ended up breaking it and being the autistic friend I am, I crawled in a shell and refused to work.

It sounds like he is tired of you sucking and wants to actually see you succeed.  You put yourself in this situation.

I've had excellent grades until freshman year.

[Kingdaro]

Regardless of whether or not the situation is truly OP's fault, making your kid feel worse about their grades is the last thing you should do as a parent to help them improve in their academics.

[$trinick]

It's simple. Get better grades.

No, it's simple. Use the computer anyway. What the forgets he gonna do about it? Take it away? Go get it back. Break your stuff? Use his. He locks his computer? Reset bios and use a windows recovery disk to reclaim ownership. Set restrictions on the TV? Open it up when he's not home and reset it. Seriously, he'll struggle for maybe a few weeks before giving in. Persistence overcomes all. And before one of you come up with some "he'll beat your ass" excuse, you're a teenager climbing the hill to your physiological peak and he's over the hill and on the physiological decline. If my dad for some reason he wanted to beat the stuff out of me, I'd throw him down the stairs and tell him that if he ever touches me again I'll murder him. If they throw you out, sue them for neglect, child abuse, and emancipation. Then you get all the awesome benefits of being an adult without actually being an adult. It's a win-win. Plus, you can even show your parents the forget up when you proceed to disobey their every command and still do well in school. Show them that you're better than their parenting.

[ArchaicModifications]

Sometimes you just have to accept it, and trust that your parents know what they're doing. They're not as stupid as you think.