I mean.....I see it your way, but at the same time your kid could be the positive influence. The kid that says "see you at school tomorrow" "I got a comic I want to show you, I'll bring it to school" That kid could come to your crib with your son and see another side of life, how shyts supposed to be and want that more than the current way he's living. Want to be around more people like you and your kid.
It could be all for nothing. My boy dropped out of high school. He wasn't too popular and didn't really give a shyt about his classes and his parents didn't push him. He is white and Filipino, 2 parent household, grew up in the same house forever, wasn't poor. We started separating in middle school because I was popular and active in sports and extracurriculars, so naturally I met and knew more people. By the time we got to high school I told him to play football, he played for a year, but other than football we didn't really kick it. He never found a set group of friends, or anything else, so failing classes, no friends around sophomore year he began not showing up for weeks or months. And I'd go to his house before school and be like "let's go" that worked a few times. Junior year he was taking night school, well supposed to. And it was easy shyt, just do the assignments and turn in the work. They gave him the book to take home so he could do them all at home and just turn them in and pass, he didn't want to do that. It was easy work too, I told him I'll do it and he just has to turn it in and he was still like "nah"
Senior year, graduation, our boy that went to a different school was graduating the same day I was/we were and he was like "I'm not going to your graduation, I'm going to Darius'" and I'm like "

we homies, how you not gonna be there for me?" He went off "I'm supposed to be up there with you! You left me!"
It was rough...we went at it for a minute. I tried to be the good influence but it didn't pan out with him. I was already mentoring and had some young bucks doing their thing. He came to my crib maybe 5-6 years later talking bout "I always knew you'd make it!" He still wasn't doin shyt. He's gotta kid now. I haven't talked to him in probably a decade.