16 year old and college

[Mairyhinge]

I've just had college on the phone again to tell me my 16 year old isn't attending. His attendance is 87% and needs to be 95% before they'll consider offering him next years place.
I have spoken to him over and over about this and he just says 'it's fine'
He's part time anyway due to the courses he's doing but he just doesn't go if he doesn't want to.
Now I hear he's not engaged enough in his music class ( which was the main reason he went there!!) and his tutor has concerns about his work.
He's a typical lazy 16 year old who seems to be asleep/ sleep walking most of the time.
Has anyone else been/ going through this? Any advice or ideas?
I've already decided to give him a final chance then he's moving back upstairs ( he has the converted cellar as his bedroom/ music room), which he will hate but it's got to be done. I feel he's taking the piss.
I'd love to hear some advice!

Sit him down and spell out what the consequences will be if he drops out of college. e.g.

• any financial support over and above bed and board will stop
• internet will be turned off in the day

Discuss what he wants out of life and how it can be achieved.

Does he regret his choice of course? They can 'restart' and spend 3 years over college if they need to. But the college might be less keen if he hasn't engaged this year.

Maybe make any allowance you currently give him conditional on him attending the week before.

Thank you.
He doesn't know what he wants out of life and what he wants to do. He thought he did. I thought he did. He's amazingly talented with music, has played drums since age 5, and taught himself bass guitar. Is in a band and they gig. BUT he's not doing music performance at college which I thought was a mistake. He needs shaking.
I'm going to speak to him later.
I don't want his talent wasting!

Agree with above. May not be a popular response but 87% isn't too bad attendance. I'm fairly sure mine was about that, I was threatened and then I decided to retake the year as I realised I wasn't going to get the grades I wanted for a good future. I think they probably wrote home about it, my parents told me, I improved a bit, it came up again. The reason I wasn't going was failing to get up on time and not wanting to be late so not going, not having done homework so not wanting to go in, terrible eating habits so low energy. I don't think you should run round a teenager but keeping an eye on these things is important. School is structured and compulsory, college is not, so the leap from school to college is probably the biggest transition for young people.

I agree with learningandgrowing. I also think that only studying part time could be a problem. I am surprised College have agreed to this as 16yr olds need to be studying for a certain number of hours for the college to receive funding. He needs more to fill his week.