<p>We have had some hair raising SAT experiences. S arrived to one with no drivers lincense or id in his billfold. Since he doesn’t go to the public school, they don’t know him there, so into the problem line he went. Another time, no ticket anywhere and it was right on the bulletin board the night before, and we could not get the website up to print another copy. And then, he forgot his calculator for the math–actually lost his calculator, so H ran to a CVS to buy something because S’s big problem in math is accuracy–he is so sloppy that he misreads his own numbers and loses out. With a calculator, he is quite competitive, without, a disaster.</p>
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I had my very attractive 18 year old sister take me to the driving test. It was for a motorcycle license, so she had to drive the officer around behind me. I think we missed several of the exercises and I passed with flying colors. I think she got asked out!</p>
<p>Some of these stories are incredible to me, and funny too. EaDad’s story of the mom videotaping kid walking out of SATs, whoa (I would never have thought that one up myself but even if I had, my kids would KILL me). And then Bern’s story about at Harvard the question from the parents of a kindergartener! The audience must have cracked up! Then his story of the Asian parent asking the kid if she accomplished the “requisite” 1600 and if not, no car (that one wasn’t funny really, but sad). The videotaping of the drive test??? Again, my kids would absolutely run me over if I had done that. </p>
<p>Now, let me also say we do video and take photos of events our kids are in , a LOT. But these are the sorts of things where other parents are also doing so and it seems rather appropriate. Once in a while, even THEN, we have to tell them we are going to take a photo (like everyone else) so expect it and be done with it. </p>
<p>This story about the videotaping of the SATs, is one I think I am gonna tell my kid when I see her tonight because today she did not allow me to video something, nor even come to watch. And if she thought my asking her to do so was outrageous, she should hear about the SAT and drive test moms, LOL! But in my D’s case today, she is actually PERFORMING something (is it far fetched to want to see her performance at the least and preferably videotape it but I would have at least been happy to have simply watched???) My even ASKING resulted in a BIG comeback from her (absolutely not and if you think you are gonna sneak in and sit in the back, don’t even think about it!..though I never would once she had told me no but that was how strong she felt about it and said she’d be embarrassed if I merely showed up). She is doing a presentation in the auditorium but for a class (of about 20 kids) on stage, for a final project she did for this class in American Studies. She had written a 40 page dual biography comparing Sondheim and Jonathan Larson (who wrote RENT among other musicals) and had to do a presentation and she performing a 40 min. set of songs where she couples a Sondheim song with a Larson song around certain themes in their work. She is playing piano and singing many solos but has also directed friends of hers who will either sing solos, duets or group numbers in her presentation as she accompanies on piano as well. We normally video her performances but she said no way this time as it was for a class (though the auditorium is huge and I could be at the back but forgettabout it! I had just videotaped her singing a solo in front of the entire school last week and she had no problem but she said it was different with a full theater and that a mother showing up for a performance she was putting on for her class was out of the question in her mind. Oh well. She should only know what some parents did as reported on this thread! </p>
<p>Jami, you might recall last year at this time when my D arrived at her testing site which is 25 miles from us (not our school) and my hubby dropped her off and drove away and she called me to say that she did not realize that she had taken her drivers permit (only photo ID she had) out of her wallet and it was at home and she was not gonna be able to get in and I drove SO fast to get there and run into the building with it and don’t see another kid, nor her and found one adult there who said, no problem, they let her in. I looked like a chicken with my head cut off but it is not like she called to say she had gotten in anyway but then again, cell phones do not work for most of that particular drive I was on. </p>
<p>Susan</p>
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Not quite: from a page about Douglas MacArthur and his mother, part of a Smithsonian history of West Point:
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<p>soozievt: about half the room cracked up the other half just stared at the guy and his wife in awe…</p>
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<p>As I mentioned in the OP, when we saw her with the video camera my wife turned to S and said…“and you thought WE were bad?”…We all got a good laugh about it but, to tell the truth, I REALLY feel sorry for that girl if this is any indication of what her college search process is going to be like.</p>