<p>Another sicky in our house, too. Although this is nothing like mono. Just a fever and sore throat; probably strep. It’s always strep. Most days I wouldn’t even mention it. But today is the Powder Puff football game and now D can’t play. She’s crushed. :(</p>
<p>My sympathies to those of you with sick ones. </p>
<p>I’m trying to help S figure out his game plan for next semester. He has the possibility of taking a U class, if he can find one that fits his schedule and still has room for him. Otherwise he takes an easy, not very valuable class at HS. </p>
<p>I’m really hoping he can find a U class that works for him, as I think he would like it better and it would look better when he applies to colleges. I wish his schedule wasn’t so full with EC’s and out-of-HS math so he could more easily find a time to fit in an off-campus class. (or that his HS offered more appropriate classes at his level!) </p>
<p>I worry that it will look like he has taken too many easy classes this year, but that is due to his busy schedule and the lack of classes in HS that are appropriate for him. </p>
<p>Hopefully we’ll find a way to make it all work.</p>
<p>Leaving DS12 home alone Friday night and Sat till late at night. We are traveling to the “Restore Sanity” rally in DC. DS is staying home to continue working on our Congressman’s re-election campaign. He plans on working 7am till 10pm. He is totally pumped about his involvement in this campaign, having been deemed “super intern”. We are thrilled for him to have invested some much of himself is something positive. Less thrilled about leaving him home alone. He has a girlfriend. Nope, not thrilled at all.</p>
<p>Chrissyblu - so sorry to hear about your D coming down with mono. My friend’s son had it last year at this time while a freshman at USC. He came home for a week and rested then went back to school, but had to take it easy until he came home at Christmas. I remember her saying that he could not do any physical activity for 4-6 weeks.</p>
<p>Chrissyblu I hope your D is on the mend quickly. Our D had pnuemonia during the summer, it took quite a while for her energy levels to bounce back. Limited extra activity may be a good idea for a while.
Geogirl, so I’m sure the girlfriend,s mom already knows you will be out of town…after all she might want to feed your son or something (wink). (Just how my mom handled it.) Have a great trip.</p>
<p>I feel for all of you who are dealing with sick children regardless of the severity of the illness. Even a viral or bacterial infection can be debilitating for days as we’ve found out all too frequently. We’ve also found out that not only does it make for a miserable child and worried parents, it can make for some rough patches academically depending on your school’s policies and general attitudes toward “sick days”. We know from experience, for example, that a two-day illness almost automatically brings about a 5-point drop in the grade for many classes unless the teacher provides an opportunity to demonstrate mastery of class work assigned in the child’s absence (some teachers do, some don’t). Just one more thing to worry about on top of helping your student get better!</p>
<p>chrissyblu - I’m soooo sorry! D12 had mono right about this time last year. she missed about two weeks of school completely and then went half days for another couple of weeks, alternating mornings and afternoons so she wasn’t always missing the same classes. her teachers were very accommodating - they exempted her from several smaller assignments and gave her plenty of time to make up her work. your 4x4 situation makes things tougher I would expect - we are on a traditional semester system, so while her first quarter grades took a slight hit, she had the whole second quarter to improve so that the semester-end grades (which make up her GPA) were back on track. good luck to you and D!</p>
<p>geogirl - D12 and I will be on the mall too on Saturday! this truly is the rally for busy people - we bought very cheap Southwest tickets several weeks ago and we are just staying for the day, so no hotel reservations or packing to deal with! I haven’t given it another thought in terms of planning. (lots of excitement though ;))</p>
<p>chrissyblu - Sorry to hear about your D getting mono. Mono is not fun and these kids are so busy - it’s just hard to be sick.</p>
<p>DB - I hope your D feels better quickly too.</p>
<p>geogirl and PRJ - That’s so great that you’re going to the rally in DC. Have a blast!</p>
<p>I just decided today not to go to DC for the rally. It would be a 6 hour bus ride and even though one of my best buddies is going, I just can’t deal with 12 hours on a bus in one day. I looked at Amtrak but they’re totally booked!!! I guess that’s the good news. Flying doesn’t work because I don’t want to be stuck in traffic (which I would be with the bus) from the airport getting to the rally. I just don’t have the energy for that the day before Halloween, which is a big deal around here. </p>
<p>Thanks to all of you who are going as I truly believe we need to bring back the sanity!</p>
<p>Please report back after the rally! We wanted to go, but it is Fall Break, so I will be spending the weekend comparing tiny colleges in the Midwest…too bad S won’t look at East Coast, we could have combined the rally with the trips.</p>
<p>Yes, have a wonderful time at the rally! Friends are going, but it’s too far in too crazy a time for us. It might be the Woodstock of our middle-age though-- I hate to miss it.</p>
<p>That would be so cool if we could all go and meet at the mall! I’ll the one with a DH, 2 kids and 4 signs! Great idea PRJ - fly in and fly out. You’ll get lots of the fun and little to no hassle. ATMC- throw caution to the wind and come on over! It’s going to be so much fun. I don’t know if it’ll be “Woodstock” - 3 hrs, not 3 days and the weather is suppose to be clear and nice, not raining. I am looking forward to it though. My MIL lives in MD, so we will be staying with her Friday night and heading home afterwards. DS2 has a football game Sunday morning and we are “snack” parents. Yeah…kinda. </p>
<p>Mom2M - You got it right! We will be calling GF’s mom and letting her know. She feeds him all the time as it is! </p>
<p>Chrissyblu - I hope your DD starts feeling better very soon.</p>
<p>amtc: Don’t feel too bad about missing the rally. It will be fun, but it is too little too late. The wave is already half way up the beach. Start focusing on '12. Can you believe that will be when our kids are freshmen?</p>
<p>SAT results are in for '12 D. Her 800 CR matches the 36 ACT Eng her '11 brother got this fall. Can you tell that they are the children of a librarian LOL? Unfortunately, her math score hasn’t improved since she took the SAT two years ago. Ugh! She and I both thought her math would go up. She’s bright enough. I don’t know what to do to help her improve her math. I can’t help my kids with math homework once they get past algebra 1 and dh, despite being an engineer, isn’t much better. D’s scores indicated that she might have scored high enough on the PSAT to make National Merit. Crossing our fingers…</p>
<p>^^I had an engineer grandfather and an uncle with a PhD. in mathematics to try to help me with math in HS. Neither could teach to save their life. Good luck with the NMS!</p>
<p>Congratulations to your DD, Apollo6!! Awesome news.</p>
<p>My son came home from school talking about his friend’s SAT scores (DS postponed and will not take SAT until Jan 22 for his first time). One of his friends, who got an 800 math, 730 reading told us that his mother came into his room in the morning telling him that he didn’t do so well on the reading portion of the SAT and he needs to retake it. What is wrong with these parents? I later told my son that if he had those scores he would be one and done!</p>
<p>Of course, I don’t know that my son could come close to that reading score. A friend of his, who he has tended to score very similarly to on past standardized test, studied with a tutor for the October SAT and still got a disappointing 540 in critical reading. I also have a “lopsided” son so it really disheartened me to hear that even with one on one prep, the reading didn’t come up. Well, I guess it will all be for the best in the end.</p>
<p>The mother and/or son are probably shooting for a HYPS-like undergraduate education. If that’s the case I’d be taking the SAT again also.</p>
<p>That said, if it were my daughter, we’d be one and done cause lightning won’t strike the same place twice (well, not often anyways).</p>
<p>With superscore, lightning doesn’t have to strike the same place. If they can direct it to where they need it most…</p>
<p>When they take SAT, do kids come out earlier if they go in early?</p>
<p>But isn’t a 1530 good enough for HYPS??? From what I have read here on CC, the kids with a 1600 have no different admissions results than the kids with a 1500. They are already “in the zone”. </p>
<p>I did find with my girls, that the earlier that their classroom started the SAT, the earlier they were released. I had to wait an additional half hour once for my daughters classroom to be finished while her girlfriend in another room was out so much earlier.</p>