my son is 15 and thinks he is quite cool, We don't, think, street baseball hats peak tilted upwards! Jeans almost down to his knees, a swagger a penguin would be proud of! We have made a massive decision to send him to private school for 6th form,to try and point him in the right direction. At the moment in his present secondary school he is laid back and un-motivated, but really wants to go to this school. it is a complete and utter lifestyle change for him, but we don't think he realises how much he will need to conform to fairly strict boundaries. he is already saying after coming home today sporting a White earring !!!! Ffs that the boys are allowed to wear a black earring at the new school! he just doesn't get it! We want him to embrace his new school life because we think without this chance he may be on a road to ruin. I am really worried about the choices he is making, and to a certain extent I know he is 15 and needs to be a teenager, but spending this amount of money £17k a year, we need to be sure he is on board for the commitment, we have told him that he needs to think really hard to determine if he can buckle down. The 6th form college he could go scares me as there is no firm boundaries and I know he will just go of the rails. In a few words we are trying to buy support and encouragement and commitment from him and his new school.We support him in everything he does and we both feel a bit helpless in the difficult job of keeping him on the straight and narrow. he has 2 sisters who are both hardworking both have had their fair share of disappointments( eldest chose wrong course at uni, came home after 2 months, middle daughter couldn't hack a-levels and is now doing b-tech and is going to uni in September to study to be a teacher ) both now happy. Ds very lucky to be given this opportunity. I feel very pissed off at his attitude, Please advise I have got this out of proportion and need to know if this is normal