I understand your pain and frustration. I think that the school has some responsibility here too. They should have alerted you a lot earlier than the mid year report! At our school if my DD didn't hand in work on the due date, I would get a sms stating what was due and stating that it wasn't handed in. It gave me the opportunity to get on her to make sure that it was, she managed to get everything in. Our school would tell us if they were in danger of failing and give us options of other things to improve the grades. I know that here in Vic, a lot of the kids aren't actually doing the VCE exams but they still get their certificates.

I think there has to be something that you can do....something that he is interested in. My DD can be extremely lazy too, but I pushed her into doing her work before anything else, she didn't get computer time or anything else unless the work was done first. She has just finished her VCE, who knows what the marks will be like?

Tafe can be an option, but only if he wants to do it, they will not push him to do the work, its pretty much the students responsibility!

Good Luck!!