college help: I failed a class and am not telling my parents. - Help.com

It is going to be really hard, but you should tell.
They are paying for it, and to be honest if they find out and its not from you, it will probably hurt more.
It sounds like they would want to help you more than anything

Personally, I don’t think what you’re doing is fair to your parents. After all, the cost of the class came out of their pocket. Therefore, I think your parents have a right to know the truth about whether or not you passed this class.

How would you feel if you were in their shoes and you footed the bill for your son or daughter’s class and discovered later on that he or she lied about passing the class?

Trust me, your parents will be more upset about the fact that you lied to protect them from feeling disappointment rather than failing the class.

Be that as it may, if you’re feeling guilty already then it’s more than likely just going to get worse. It’s going to feel like there’s a burden on your conscience the longer you go without telling your parents the truth.

Lying will cut you off from your family, which is tragic, but it is realistically too difficult to come up with the requisite courage to take a higher road sometime. Focus as much attention as you can on increasing your courage and confidence, and maybe you’ll manage to pull through okay.

lucky, my parents payed for some college as well and they wanted to know everything(what classes i’m taking, my gpa, all that jazz)…and rightly so. if they’ll never find out then they’ll never find out, what i think unfair is to pretend you’re ‘ok’. whatever medical issues you may have, i honestly think it’s stupid if you’re able yet not willing to get help. granted no parent likes to see their kid struggle, yet i’m sure they rather know it and help you fix the problem rather than live a lie and later find out you’ve been pretending for who knows how long. if you’re blaming petty things like this on your issues now, it’s only going to become easier to use them as an excuse later on.

“Bad news never gets better with age.”

Get it out on the table. Deal with it.

That’s the mature thing to do.

Also have a plan for how YOU are going to fix it!

You could also study your fanny off and take the final . . . who knows?

You might even pass!