Ungrounding? Best way to talk with parents?

Writing a letter is an excellent idea. Make sure you’re very clear (AND POLITE.) Restate your strongest ideas and feelings if necessary. If you’re mature about this, they’ll be much more likely to see you as mature enough to be ungrounded. Pray the Lord gives you wisdom & patience!

As a parent, a polite letter would probably really give me a chance to re-think the choices. I think a letter is a great idea.

Can you talk to a guidance counselor at school? If they are both teachers, as you say, I don’t understand why they don’t understand that college and scholarship paperwork are a forevergoing process. I feel that in this situation here that they just want to bust your @$$. Maybe they’re having issues knowing that soon their son is going to be going off to college, and want to keep you home as much as possible. Are you their only/ youngest child? If so, what I think is probably accurite. Perhaps they don’t realize that you won’t talk to them much after you move out because if all of the $#!^ that they’re putting you throug now. They’ll write Dear Abby years from now asking why their son doesn’t call them; people do it all the time. They never take the time to wonder what they might have done to form such a child/parent relationship. Your parents sound so much like my friends parents its eerie (is that how you spell it?).