Luckily I'm my own barber

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I've talked to him ad-nauseam about all of the things that you've mentioned. I want him to see that the same people that he's slacking off for, and trying to impress, are the same people that'll laugh at him for acting like a dummy and not doing what he needs to do in school. He knew he messed up, which is why he went through the trouble of trying to change his grade. I wouldn't have done this if he was forthright about it, and just showed his grade for what it was, and promised to do better. But the fact that his plan was so elaborate, thought out, and meant to deceived people - again, where was this cerebral thought process, and planning when it came to turning in the homework - I knew I had to approach this situation differently.
This is what I want. I WANT him to try to impress people, but the RIGHT people i.e. me and his mother who bends over backwards for him in an attempt to give him the world and then some.
Folks been asking about his dad, he passed when he was less one year old.
Regardless of the outcome of the poll (

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His mom is on those slave shifts.