<p>Please consider asking your son to change his password on the account (or work up the resolve never to check his grades again). Last year, I had access to my son’s freshman grades and actively checked progress in his classes. I had absolutely no reason to do so other than morbid curiosity. Well, I noticed that he wasn’t consistently turning in assignments and made the mistake of mentioning it to my younger son who predictably, told my older son. The best thing that happened was that he locked me out of his school accounts.</p>
<p>Currently he is failing a junior level required engineering course (solid mechanics) and he admitted it to us on his own. Our advice was to 1) get help/tutoring; 2) meet with the professor; 3) meet with his academic advisor (this also because he is contemplating a change in major, only partially influenced by this grade/class). Haven’t heard a recent update, but there’s little we can do other than listen and encourage.</p>