Failing in A school or not doing well.

[sheep]

I am terrified because I know my loved one is not doing well. My child wrote me a letter telling me that things were not good at all. Does anyone know anything about 17-10?

[Arwen]

I don't know what "17-10" is but my son has also been struggling in A school.

He is at IT A school in Pensacola and, while his grades are good, his work pace is a little slow. There have been a steady stream of threats and rewards from his instructors to keep him going, but it keeps me on edge, half-expecting a call any day saying it's over, he's out of IT school. I actually did get one of those calls, but they gave him a second chance.

I keep telling him to keep his chin up, work harder and show them that he really WANTS to be there. A good attitude and never giving up may or may not be the key to getting a school to offer a sailor another chance, but if nothing else it looks good on their record if they are dropped from a school.

When a sailor is dropped from a school one of two things happen. They are either assigned to another school that 1) has an opening and 2) their ASVAB scores qualify them for - or if there are no open schools they're sent to the fleet "undesignated." If they go undesignated, they do all kinds of odd work for about two years, then they are recommended for a school by their supervisors.

[sheep]

Thank you so much for the information. I tell being new to things at my age is truly challenging.
I will have to read through the section of this website titled "new navy moms".

Thank you again and may God richly bless you with a victorious day.

[Arwen]

Hoppi, can they go back for a second try at their original school? Chris is still "living on the edge" and desperately wants to be an IT, no matter what it takes. Right now he's doing school 12 hours per day (four hours more than required for being behind, six hours more than his classmates). However, there is too much to do and not enough time left to do it. But his grades are good.

It would just about kill him to fail out of school with 95 percent of the school completed with good grades.

[EMC (SS)]

Make sure that you encourage him to do everything he possibly can even if he doesn't feel it will be enough. There is a difference between failing out and quitting and it affects what will happen to your Sailor from there. Where I am there are two ways to code an academic drop from training: Lack of Ability and Lack of Effort.
The lack of ability is they couldn't meet the academic requirements, but gave it their all category. This is the one where we try and get the Sailor into another school, give them an average or better evaluation and help them get into the fleet.
The lack of effort drop is when the staff feel that the Sailor failed out because he wasn't trying, he wasn't focused or he additionally had numerous military infractions (failing to complete homework, get additional assistance or complete study hours as assigned). In this case, the Sailor will not be given another school, may have to repay any enlistment installments that they received or may be discharged from Naval Service.
There are students that the staff all know because they are constantly seeking help and there are students that the staff all know because they have to constantly be on their case. Be the former rather then the latter.
Good luck,
EMC (SS)

[sheep]

Thank you so much for responding. I will certainly provide hiim with this wonderul information you have supplied to us. He is very paticular about people knowing his business as he would explain it to me but I have to pray and have a relief and help from others to get through this.

I truly thank God for your kind remarks and suggestions. May you have a blessed and victorious day.