New Year brings exciting news

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To be fair to XH Andabelle I know XH is having convos with S17 about not going to college but I doubt he is digging real deep like I am.

Today I've become very exasperated with S17. He came home on time last night . We discussed what time he would need to catch the bus etc and I even said if he was ready in time I would give him a lift as it's on my way. Did he get up in time? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. Did he go to college? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. So I decided to take matters into my own hands. I rang the college and asked to speak to his tutor. He had to ring me back as he was teaching at first. I've never before been glad that S17's bday in in mid August but today I was b/c if he had been 18 they wold have needed his permission to speak to me! Anyway it seems S17s attendance record is worse than I thought. They expect themto have a minimum of 90%. S17 has a score of 68%

His tutor has sent a letter home but it never got there b/c S17 hasn't updated his address since XH moved before Christmas. He has also been txting him for days trying to get him to handover some information htat the tuor needs tbefore he can submit him for exams in the summer. He hasn't replied to any of them! S17 doesn't know about this convo yet as he has gone to work and had left before I got home.

I I have no updated Xhs address and also given mine and asked for info to be duplicated so that at least one of use will do somoething about it. The tutor was v. grateful for this.

I decided to let XH know what I had done and sent hm a txt saying I needed to SPEAK to him about S17s college and asked him to ring me this eve. I said if I din't hear form him I would deal with by myself. I'm past pussyfooting around him after last week. Anyway he rang back virtually straight away which wasn't realy what I wanted cos I was sill at work but I was just glad he had done as I asked and told him what was going on. He started to tell me that I should take S17 like he had done but I told him that it sounded like that even when he had done S17 still was not staying in the building. His tone changed immediately. By the time I had finished he was telling me how grateful he was for filling in him. It was a bit cheesy to be honest but I guess he feels he has to be nice to me at the moment b/c if S17 doesn't go back there he looses the equiv of a third of his mortgage payments! It did feel nice that he was at least pretending to be nice for a change.

When I discovered that S17 hadn't gone to college today I rang him (before I rang tutor) and asked him why. He just said b/c.......... I asked him if he was going to sign on at the dole office and he went extremely quiet. I'm hoping that may have had some effect.

I'm sure a puppy would have been far easier