Hi, LimonFresh. My dad did the same thing. I hated report card day. I would try to get my mom to sign it and hoped he didn't ask. I graduated with mediocre grades and was just glad I passed. But I had had he enough of his critisim and got married at 17. I didn't go to college and it took me until I was in my mid-forties that I realized I was smart enough to make through college, only depression set in and I could barely function. If I had it to do over, I would have given college a try no matter what my dad said, but took years before I learned what would interest enough. Now I'm about to be 62 and really wished I had tried it.

I raised my daughter to think there was no option but to go to college. She got her Masters in Educational Counseling. She turned out to be everything I always wanted to be.

You can do college no matter what your dad thinks. You just have to believe in yourself and have a dream.