<p>CIA, you should google this. Some states have defensive driving. We also have deferred adjudication where you pay the fine and as long as you don’t get a ticket in that town for a certain amount of time, it never goes on your record. State law varies.</p>
<p>You are terrific in finding this stuff–! Thanks.</p>
<p>As it turns out…now our student has 4 APs the first week and 2 the second…
and not two on the same day…will be crazy and perhaps a little better than double days…</p>
<p>fog^2, give me Google, and I can move the world 
In this case, I just searched on AP Schedule 2011, and voila. </p>
<p>If only this worked with my cell phone and my car keys…</p>
<p>Remember, in about a year and a half the young 'uns will be sitting 3 or 4 actual college finals within a week. Taking lots of APs crammed together is good practice for them.</p>
<p>^^ I tried to google it–I must have missed the link</p>
<p>love google
bing etc</p>
<p>Imagine how when we did book reports - we had to use the dewey decimal system, had to check out books etc…
now–soooo much info is online–Our kids don’t know how easy this is–compared to begging for a ride to the public librarey or having to ride you bike to the librarey to work on a project with friends.</p>
<p>with texting, IMs etc even the FB study groups the kids put together…</p>
<p>OK so I am dating myself here…
next thing you know we will be lamenting about walking in the snow up hill both ways…</p>
<p>Hey–did anyone notice–I think the SATs from May come out in 8 days…tick tock…</p>
<p>“If only this worked with my cell phone and my car keys…”
Amen to that SlitheyTove!!!</p>
<p>Seems like the majority of my AP Exams next year will be congested in the first week of testing (yet again).</p>
<p>Did you all read the item about the fees–
The school giving the exam gets rebated $8 per exam given…(fees paid)
So of that $86, your school gets $8</p>
<p>interesting…even though our proctors are all faculty–and they get subs to cover the classes, and faculty is already salaried–I guess there is some admin the school does to warrant this…</p>
<p>Not sure what our school does with the $8 per test since we use mostly parent volunteers as proctors. The only rule is you can’t proctor an exam for a test your student is taking. We have a pretty big school, so the popular APs (calc AB has about 300 kids) are given in the gym. They need lots of parents to keep an eye out in that one.</p>
<p>SDMom, You must have a huge school! My son’s school has less then 300 kids in his Junior class!</p>
<p>If I end up taking AP Comp Sci, I will have the pleasure of taking three exams in three consecutive days next year. Lovely.</p>
<p>I’m only taking 2 APs next year–Lit and Gov. One is on a Thursday and one on the following Tuesday. Fine by me.</p>
<p>I just went to the CommonApp website and see that it isn’t released until 8/1 this year. It used to be 7/1. WHY DO THEY DO THIS TO ME?</p>
<p>Arrrggghhhh…
We got S’s progress report for the last quarter last Friday. It was probably posted online Wed but I didn’t think to check. Anyway, he is doing OK in everything except AP Euro where his teacher gave him an E. Yes, he is flunking the class. To top it off, the AP Eurp teacher was the only teacher to not leave a comment on the report. Only class he flunks and no comment. Of course S can’t understand how he has an E. another arrggghhh. So H calls teacher Monday and leaves a message. She claims S knows he is doing poorly. So H makes an appt to see her and the academic dean. In the meantime we have S empty his backpack and we look at all graded assignments. It doesn’t look like he should be getting an E. At that point our big problem is that the teacher gave us no heads up, no email, no nothing to let us know S was doing so badly. (or is it poorly) The best part is although this is midterm for the quarter, once AP exams are done, the class no longer meets, so he has no hope of doing better than what he has already done. (and what he does on the AP exam)</p>
<p>H meets with teacher and academic dean, who pulls S out of class to allow him input into conversation. Ends up teacher did not factor in all the graded assignments. He probably in reality has a C with everything factored in. S and partner ended up turning an assignment in late, and S did not turn in homework because he couldn’t put his hand on it in class. We know it was done because it is in a spiral bound book in order given and those few assignments are still in book. another arrrggghhhh. What the heck. Why does my S have such a hard time with deliverables???</p>
<p>So the academic dean pulls out S’s folder and starts reviewing from application (this is a private school) to now. Notes that S is in the top 5% of kids who tested into school. They had him pegged as a high achiever and he has a 50% merit scholarship. Notices S attended a montessori school up to 5th grade and says “well that is the problem.” He said they have seen this in the past, montessori kids just aren’t motivated by grades have difficulty adhering to deadlines and are often late/missing homework. S’s grades on midterm and final exams the past 3 years shows he knows the material, but he has difficulty turning in stuff, ie deliverables as we call them at work. Even when we know he has completed assignments they often get turned in late or not at all. He has a real problem with organization. </p>
<p>His middle school spent many hours working on organization. We spend many hours working with him, which is why we know the assignments were done, he just leaves them in his locker, etc. Then he never gets back to give them to the teacher. </p>
<p>If nothing else, the academic dean suggested we add to the already filled out fact sheet we gave to S’s GC (used to help her/him fill out college recs) indicating he is a montessori kid and that although his grades may not indicate a high achiever he is a smart kid when you just take into effect his midterms and finals. </p>
<p>The academic dean also suggested we cross off any big schools on S’s college list and concentrate on LAC’s. He said S would benefit from a broad liberal arts type education. He said he can always go to grad school to get his MBA if he wants. …another sigh. I just recently bought into S’s I want to go to business school mantra. But, the academic dean carries more weight than us so I think S is ready to buy into this LAC college thing. And I have to agree.</p>
<p>I am so mad at S and I don’t know if this is a montessori thing or just an immature boy thing. I love the boy on the couch, I love the boy on the couch, …</p>
<p>OMG, so our whole focus has just shifted again. We have a kid who loves to learn, just hates busy work and deadlines. But, isn’t that life? Our poor 10yo D will suffer (or benefit) from our mistakes with S. </p>
<p>I am gratefull for this site. Although it is filled with a lot of overachievers, it also has a lot of folks offering advice to those of us with “funky” kids. My kid will end up in a college, now I just need to help him find the right ones. Notice I said “ones” I am sure there are many colleges out there that want my kid who loves to learn. Lord knows how he will make a living, but I am running with it.</p>
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We have about 2300 kids total. Calc AB is extremely popular because we have block scheduling (only 4 periods a day), so it is “linked” with Honors pre-calculus into a full-year course, the equivalent of 2 years of math in one school year. Can’t take pre-calc without taking AB.</p>
<p>Mamom</p>
<p>Yes you LOVE that boy on the couch…</p>
<p>We have one of those–an 8th grader…
bright
capable
and has let his grades slip–
“so you didn’t ASK me to SHOW you that F”…
“which F are we talking about”…</p>
<p>sigh</p>
<p>bright
compassionate
probably born to be a litigator and at the same time a pastor who will work to feed widows and orphans…
And some “old school” teachers don’t get him…
and there are 7 days left of the quarter…</p>
<p>sigh</p>
<p>Hugs to you…I “hear” your heart.
Pulling for you as you’re
finding the right fit for your son to bloom–</p>
<p>I have one who has had her ups and downs, too. I know the feeling when they don’t personally thrive on conventional success. I also appreciate having these people here to come to for support.</p>
<p>One thing I have decided to do with mine is to remember that I will have a relationship with her for the rest of my life, and that keeping communication and caring going regardless of these kinds of blips is most important to me. Not - emphatically - that I just pat her on the head; I am straight and sometimes rough talking about what she does to herself in these kinds of situations. BUT I try always to care about her side of things and remember that she has a lot of years to become what she will be. I don’t want to lose her because I took a hard line on something that I know in a year or two will just be a blurry memory in fact but a stinging memory in feeling.</p>
<p>Good luck with this - and know you are doing right by your son. It sounds like he can talk to you, and that is the best thing of all.</p>
<p>fogfog,
“so you didn’t ASK me to SHOW you that F”…
If it wasn’t so frustrating it would be funny.</p>
<p>EmmyBet,
Your right we are in this for life. He is a good kid, something I need to keep reminding myself.</p>
<p>I feel for you mamom. My older son was something like yours in that he was always so disorganized he often turned in homework late just because he couldn’t find it in his backpack or because he left it at home, didn’t remember to print it out, etc. It was actually better for all of us when he went off to college and was responsible for himself. I’m still not sure of his overall college gpa but we were happy that he graduated in four years. If there was something he was interested in however, he was all in for that. It does sound like this situation is salvageable and hopefully the stress and tears will be a wake up call. <em>hugs</em></p>
<p>before giving up on the idea of business for S, really consider where his interest lies. If that is what will be stimulating for him, then that may be a better motivator than a general liberal arts curriculum. also, it may be different undergrad, but when I was in grad business school there were many, many group projects. if S is not holding up his end of a project, the others will insist that he toe the line, and this could be a powerful motivator, too.</p>
<p>Been there mamom with older S. Everyone who meets him socially and where he works says he is the smartest person they’ve ever met, absolutely brilliant- but almost flunked out of Cornell. He went to montessori for a couple of years preschool, but that wasn’t the issue. Parents send these kinds of kids to montessori because they don’t know what to do with them. High school was difficult, same issue, mostly would do the work but wouldn’t hand it in; would never talk to the teacher. Would just ace all the tests. Annoyed all the teachers they just thought he was a stoner, which he wasn’t. After the Cornell incident finally figured out some of the issues and learning disabilities which high school would never look at because his grades and scores were so high. My point is sometimes there is an organic cause and just not laziness or forgetfullness.</p>
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<p>Mine too. Just like that. And we are also looking at LACs. </p>
<p>Recently got a B- in Math in a mid-semester report…in spite of sky high test scores. Why? Did his homework but refused to show the work. After a good discussion with us, he’s been staying after school to make some of it up.</p>