Stumped: what should I write back to 15 yr old son

[Kidlicious]

It's amazing that he knows that you can't always be happy. Too bad so many christians believe that and teach that. It's probably what he's talking about. Sometimes we are happy and sometimes we aren't. Everything has a season.

[Alexander's Horse]

ironic isn't it, the troll trolled by his own son

[Lonestar]

Disown him

[Alexander's Horse]

I did, sort of, that's how I got the post out of him

[Lonestar]

Better do it again

[Alexander's Horse]

nah I suggested he could go and live his grandparents and go to the local public school if he couldn't hack boarding school. His behaviour and attitude suddenly improved.

[Ben Kenobi]

Jeez AH, you might as well have sent him to BK for an education.

Many Jesuit schools are very good.

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[Alexander's Horse]

I would rather cast him down to be educated with the helots in the public school

[Uncle Sparky]

Hay! I wanr too publik skool; and Im doing reelee gud so the're!

[Alexander's Horse]

lol Sparky, I have also arranged when he visits for him to help out in the library at the barefoot school his little brother goes to up here in the islands, that should sort him out, those people have got nothing but it is a good little school

[Uncle Sparky]

lol Sparky, I have also arranged when he visits for him to help out in the library at the barefoot school his little brother goes to up here in the islands, that should sort him out, those people have got nothing but it is a good little school

So, are you on one of the 'bungie jumping' islands? How about tattoos and piercings? Maybe a bit of 'going native' will straighten him out?

[Kidlicious]

I would rather cast him down to be educated with the helots in the public school

That's a bad idea. I know people who have left christian school and went to public school. It's not good. They do a 180.

[Alexander's Horse]

my father threatened me with that - it certainly got my attention

he can become a skanky tattoed man Sparky, but not on my tab

[Dr Strangelove]

Let me get this straight, you went and moved to paradise and left him back in Australia?

[MikeH]

At 15 he'd likely be as tormented and angry at any school I certainly raged against the stupidity and hypocrisy in my place, and that wasn't even a religious school.

Don't forget that angry teenage boy anger and hate aside, and much as he'd never admit it or act like it was true he probably misses his family. I assume he's not thick so writing that in his essay he knows he's going to get in serious ****, and he knows you are going to hear about it so it is a deliberate act to get attention, probably from you, at how unhappy he is. Which has worked. So listen to him and talk to him.
I had the same experience as Mark Twain.

“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished by how much he'd learned in seven years.”

I'm sure in 5 or 6 years you'll get smarter.