<p>cooker,
I’m guessing you don’t have the option to look online or you would have already done this. If the main office is open you should have the option of going in and making payment and receiving a copy of her grades from the GC who probably works on a 11 month schedule. If the drama teacher did not post her grade and there is not access to that you may be able to get a ‘soft-copy’ of the rest of your daughters grades from the front office if you make a visit. I can’t imagine the drama teacher has the ability to keep you from being informed about the rest of the grades. Her lack of reporting hers should give your daughter an ‘incomplete’ in drama until the $8 t-shirt is resolved.
Of course, I’m using logic here which as we know does not always apply!! 
Good luck!
btw, kudos to your daughter for spending a week of her summer helping others! It is a wonderful habit for our children to have. I’m sure she will have wonderful memories from this trip. I wish her group a wonderful success in their mission and for her safe return home. :)</p>
<p>Putturani, I am a IB parent, not sure if I can help though. D is in a special program so she finished all her IB tests last month.</p>
<p>According to the ACT site, <a href=“http://actstudent.org/scores/early/index.htmlscores[/url]”>http://actstudent.org/scores/early/index.htmlscores</a> are not posted until the 28th. I’m a little worried about how well son did since he said he was not feeling well but I guess he can re-take it or the SAT’s in the fall.</p>
<p>Our on-line grade site is shut down the week before finals, but report cards are mailed so we just wait (im)patiently. Son singed up for a class at PSU for the fall. I had no idea that it was that easy. Yay!</p>
<p>fog - hope kiddo feels better soon. </p>
<p>Cooker - this is something my S would do. S’s school will withhold report cards if money is owed. i imagine you coould pay the school office though to get it cleared up without having to wait for drama teachers return. </p>
<p>S started his first paying job (working at a summer camp) this week. Loves it. What isn’t to love, he is with friends, nice clean camp, fairly good pay. </p>
<p>Waiting for SAT 2 results and ACT results. As far as I can tell, there is only one school on his list that requires any subject tests. He is not retaking for one school, it just isn’t worth the added stress in the fall. He did well on the SAT in May, and if I hadn’t already paid and signed him up for the ACT he wouldn’t have taken it in June. So he is done with standardized testing, but I am still anxious for the results.</p>
<p>Got S’s yearbook pictures back. yuck,yuck, yuck. They took 12 pictures. S’s head is cut off in 3 of them! isn’t this photographer suppose to be a professional? One has a hideous (brown/orange/white striped) background. And the others, except for the straight-a-head sitting ones are ridiculous poses. The kids were required to wear suits for the photo included in the yearbook and none of the boys bought changes of clothes, although they were allowed many. Plus the boys have no interest in exchanging photos with their friends so I am going to get off cheap.</p>
<p>Report cards were supposed to have been mailed Friday, but there were issues with the online grade system, and we still have not received them. I know all his letter grades, just waiting to see what the rank is, as one scholarship depends on class rank.</p>
<p>Our senior photos have few requirements - we select the photographer and can submit any pose for the yearbook - many are outside, casual photos. I didn’t bother having any of S in a suit. His photos were all taken outside in the grounds around a historic mansion, some in a T-shirt, some with a dress shirt.</p>
<p>Only test results we are awaiting are the AP’s, and not anxiously. S will be off to his 6 week summer program soon; I am sure there will be no essay writing done there. I hope he gets his summer AP work done and turned in by e-mail before the deadlines!</p>
<p>Pictures are SO different with girls! </p>
<p>We just signed up with a terrific photographer for a half-day session. Sounds like a girl’s paradise: the woman is also a trained makeup and hair professional, works with a lot of actors and models. They’ll play with things for hours and have a ball! And it’s no more expensive than the “typical” senior photographer we used with D1, whose work we realized later was pretty blah; D1 went the because of a coupon and was glad to get it done and out of the way. But D2 will have a really wonderful album of pictures - my friend used this woman and has gorgeous stuff.</p>
<p>Oh, and yeah, I guess one will go in the yearbook. One almost forgets that’s why we’re doing this! (Although my D also needs useful headshots for her acting auditions.)</p>
<p>Trying not to think about test results. I’m just hoping there aren’t any bad surprises. My D said she had a “nightmare” a few days ago that her ACT score went up, but that her great reading score from the last one went down! I guess this shows it’s on her mind, and it matters to her. I think she went into both SAT2 and ACT this time with a much more concerted attitude, less emotional. We’ll see if it pays off. APs will be what they will be - hard to sweat them, since there’s no question of whether or not to retake.</p>
<p>Talking to friends whose kids are going off in the fall, some already done with orientation, sounds so exciting. I’m REALLY looking forward to be there next year! But I know this year will be full of meaning and excitement, along with wishing it were over.</p>
<p>My daughter is more like a boy when it comes to having her photo done. Doesn’t want to do it , doesn’t care what theyvlook like, only doing it for the yearbook. Hence I will not be spending much and will just go to Sears!! Ha ha!</p>
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<p>gosh I forgot all about those.</p>
<p>I didn’t care about pictures, either. My HS was open-minded, and I used a snapshot a friend had taken when I wasn’t looking.</p>
<p>Funny thing was, there was a picture book of all 1st years at my college, and having no other, I sent in that picture. I happened to be wearing a hat in it, and all through college people who met me said, “Oh, you’re that girl in the hat!”</p>
<p>The nice thing my D’s photographer said to me yesterday was that they can bring stuff to be in the pictures - typically, my D wants to have some with her saxophone - but it’s not only “hobby props.” She said one girl took a lovely picture with a Peruvian blanket her uncle had given her as a gift. No one would know why it was in the picture, but it meant a lot to her. I liked that idea.</p>
<p>Our student’s hs has a contract with a local firm–</p>
<p>for girls it is a dream come true–they can upgrade to makeup and hair styling etc etc
can do pics on location around city etc…</p>
<p>for the boys they can do about the same stuff–(minus makeup/hair)</p>
<p>Looking through the yearbook–of course all of the portraits are classic tux or drape…and the other pics I guess the familiy keeps or they do in the “dedication” pages in the book (which family buys space for them)</p>
<p>Its pretty complicated</p>
<p>No makeup, hair, tuxedos, or advance packages at D1’s school, I don’t think. The magnet has a teeny tiny yearbook with extremely casual pictures.</p>
<p>Based on laughter from my kids looking through my high school yearbook, the best option is to have the student wear classic styles rather than anything fashionable. Especially for the girls, who also contend with makeup and hair. The ironic thing is that the geekiest kids, who tended to wear more conservative clothing, end up looking the best to the next generation.</p>
<p>Well ^^ the “basic” package is $50–just for the sitting fee… I have no clue what the packages cost–I think they ran into several hundre dollars –
then there are the cost of the prints…</p>
<p>we however will do it tastefully and economically–no big packages here…</p>
<p>Look what I found about TS3…</p>
<p>haven’t seen it yet–waiting until the whole fam is back in town at the end of summer (hope it is still in the theaters in July)</p>
<p>[Movie</a> Talk: ‘Toy Story 3’ Chock Full of Hidden Facts and Movie References](<a href=“http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-toy-story-3-easter-eggs.html]Movie”>http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-toy-story-3-easter-eggs.html)</p>
<p>don’t get me wrong, if my D was “into” having her portrait done, I would love to have a nice series of professional photographs of her…sigh…</p>
<p>I agree with going for a classic look for the year book photo. If you don’t go for the “drape” (which my D refuses to do), then a plain black scoop neck(not too low for sure) shirt works well.
I cringe when I look at my HS yearbook photo…what was I thinking!</p>
<p>^^</p>
<p>My DH and I get a kick out of old school pics…
and like when big sideburns were “in” and the leisure pants etc…His older brother–had the whole hair/sideburns things going…in hs</p>
<p>In undergrad school , my DH had the 1980s hair…longish back–shorter front (NOT mullet)–more so from that alertnative music/ “hip” thing that was going on–when we thought drinking white zin was cool…</p>
<p>I had the hot-rollered hair–the kind that took ALOT of hairspray…every girl in the dorms had hot rollers back then…</p>
<p>I did not even consider bringing a TV, but the hot rollers were mandatory.</p>
<p>I on the other hand always wore my hair ridiculously short! Ugh…what was I thinking!</p>
<p>^^ Ha ha My hair has been various lengths and COLORS!
I look at some of these styles and such–and think WHat was I thinking–and yet - at the time it WAS FASHIONABLE!</p>
<p>oh well.</p>
<p>Hope everyone is enjoying summer. tick tock…tom is SAT reality.</p>
<p>I’m getting a definite taste for what to prod and what to leave alone. Such a balance!</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone with SATs. It will be nice to know.</p>
<p>D1 had some research papers that were recommended reading for her summer program, so I gave her a short course in how to find papers on the internet and how to read them. Back in the day, when you had a journal citation, you went to the departmental library or reading room, found the appropriate hard-bound year or volume, and xeroxed the article. Nowadays, you put “exact title of paper” into the google search box. Hit print, if you want to read it offline. Easy as pie. I found one for her as an example. She said great, could I find the rest for her? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>She did appreciate the suggestions on how to read a paper, meaning read the introduction or overview and the conclusions, and make a list of questions about unfamiliar terms. Lucky kid, I had to figure all that out for myself a lifetime ago. :)</p>
<p>Both parents sobbed during Toy Story 3 last night.</p>
<p>@emmybet: you took the words right out of my mouth…</p>