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<p>And a 3.2 will get a person into other state schools, and to many others, besides.</p>
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<p>Eastern Shore cantalope?!?! Maryland’s Eastern Shore? Awesome. Can I swing by and get some on my way to the beach tomorrow?</p>
<p>owlice, that is exactly what I said, you need to finish reading before you reply. There is NO difference in our posts, they are saying the same.</p>
<p>owlice leaves treats in her wake the way S1 leaves crumbs, D leaves shoes, and S2 leaves Legos. . . . Thanks again, owlice!</p>
<p>I was just coming back to say that H and S1 (who had the same teacher for Kindergarten, as did D) came along with me, so that helped to keep the tear quotient to a minimum.</p>
<p>And it wasn’t the report card from S1’s school - it was a reminder about health forms for next year. Joke’s on me.</p>
<p>MiamiDAP, I think what’s different about the two posts is their tones. It seems pretty clear to me that owlice read your post and wanted to frame the message differently.</p>
<p>Well I just got my D’s report card 5 minutes ago in the mail. I thought it was good, but if I post the grades, someone will just tell me that community college is the best we can hope for.</p>
<p>So Queen’s Mom, have some of this delicious pizza and fruit salad instead. Much healthier!</p>
<p>S received transcript for a couple of community college classes he took through the high school. Front of the envelope says something like “not official if seal broken”. He won’t open that envelope, even tho he had the school mail transcripts to his “real” college. I asked him what grade he got in the class. “I don’t know.” Darned kid! Can you really steam open envelopes and then re-seal them? I am so tempted!</p>
<p>yumm to the fruit. Its supposed to be recordbreaking heat again here today. Some cool melon sounds like just the ticket. Maybe some nice lemonade to go with. I’ll squeeze the lemons.</p>
<p>S got a C as a final grade in a non-honors math class. Clearly he is doomed to be a ditch-digger.</p>
<p>Pass the cookies, please…</p>
<p>I’ll take the fruit salad, but no pizza. I’m trying to lose weight.</p>
<p>Thank you, mikasauntie, and belly up to the cookie plate, Booklady. All our kids can dig ditches together.</p>
<p>Queen’s Mom, I believe owlice herself taught me this: Virtual treats have zero calories.</p>
<p>This IS posting weirdly - I’d already seen your post, which now appears below this one, Queen’s Mom, when I wrote what you see above.</p>
<p>C in math as a predictor…Math was DEFINITELY not my strength in school. I am now a CPA. Go figure!</p>
<p>oops! I think there was a pun in there!</p>
<p>Right. Returning us to the main point of this thread: Stay in the parent forum, where for the most part, there is helpful perspective like that!</p>
<p>(Not to mention painful puns.)</p>
<p>I love puns!</p>
<p>lol! </p>
<p>DougBetsy, yes, those cantaloupes be they! I just cut into one and used part of it for fruit salad (some of the food I mention is … ah… less virtual than it might appear!), and OMG, it was sooooo gooood that I had to eat a slice of it. Standing over the kitchen sink – I didn’t even get a dish! </p>
<p>And then another slice, eaten the same way, the juices running down my arms. </p>
<p>Took probably less than 10 seconds to eat both slices! (There might be some hyperbole in that statement, but… there might not!)</p>
<p>I cut slices for H and S, because as good as this melon is, some of it should be eaten without any competition from other foods. </p>
<p>Harriet, yes, the tone in MiamiDAP’s post struck me as incredibly negative. The fact is that it doesn’t matter WHAT a student does, how good a student is, how perfect the stats – there will be schools unsuitable for that student, schools that will reject that student. That’s true of everyone, not just 3.2 GPA students with decent ACT/SAT scores.</p>
<p>Okay, H is home with bananas; time to finish making the salad, and then it’s off to the pool! Yes, we’re having pizza there, with fruit salad! :D</p>
<p>Have a great afternoon, all.</p>
<p>Thanks all for this. Just what I needed this morning. Back from Sixth Grade Promotion with Twin D-A and Twin D-B. DS’s report card was poking out of the mailbox and it had not one but two B’s. He’s on a college visit as we speak, probably I should cancel it and send him to Home Depot for an Ivy-covered shovel.</p>
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<p>Harriet, you have clearly altered the space-time continuum. Please go back and change all our children’s grades to A’s. Thank you for your attention to this matter.</p>
<p>I’m on it! Good idea, Booklady.</p>
<p>If it doesn’t work, though, can you ask your son to pick up maybe a dozen shovels, crm?</p>
<p>By the way, considering that I never even took physics, let alone getting good grades in it, I guess I should be rather prouder of this accomplishment. Maybe I should go start a “zomg what are my CHANCES?1!?1!” thread. . . .</p>
<p>Queens Mom - after a few months on CC, I went to my daughter’s first individual GC meeting and the GC thought I was a total idiot or on serious drugs because I was worried my kid, who is maybe in the top third of her class, wouldn’t get into schools that no one in the history of our high school had EVER been rejected from.</p>
<p>That’s funny, Muffy. I think I will probably be in the same boat next year when I go in to see my daughter’s GC.</p>
<p>My daughter is part of the problem too. What do you do when a child refuses to consider any safeties?</p>