Your holdback son is weak; he’ll be weak all through life because you taught him to take shortcuts; you taught him sports’ success is everything, even if it means doing a grade twice. What’s sadder? Your son,
In all likelihood, won’t succeed in lax regardless. And that will crush him. Because he knows what you want out of him. He’ll be the typical divorced FLID sitting in a bar talking about how many township ‘chips he won
But at least you were able to brag to your buddies while he was in 7th grade!