My middle son is a high school freshman. In our state kids need 4 years of gym. Because kids were wearing inappropriate or dirty clothing for gym the school started gym uniforms. All of the articles of clothing have the school logo on it and gym clothes can't be worn outside the gym. The kids have to keep the clothes in their locker Monday through Friday and being the clothes home on Friday. If the clothes aren't in their locker during the week they lose points. If their clothes are left in the locker over the weekend then they lose points. Anyone caught wearing gym clothes under their clothes will lose points because athletic shorts and sweatpants are against the dress code.That's just to set the scene. Now on to my actual problem. My 14 year old freshman has decided that he will not change for gym. He was picked on the first day he tried to change. From what we hear it was nothing too crazy but made him insecure enough to not want to change anymore. He hasn't changed since the first week of school and will be failing gym for the year.He's completely fine with failing gym for his remaining high school career. I'm worried about how this will affect him when it comes to college application time. He will likely lose his spot in the National Honor Society as well.This kid has been unpushinable since preschool. He doesn't care about being punished and we went with natural and logical consequences instead but I don't know if I should continue with that. Don't we have to step in when they are about to really mess up? He doesn't have a phone and doesn't watch TV. He needs his computer for school. He doesn't ever go anywhere. I'm not even sure what we would take away from him in a punishment. via /r/Parenting https://ift.tt/2RnoW3p
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