<p>Is it me or was my last post filled with a few too many ******…LOL</p>
<p>MDMom1314…that’s what we are here for…vent on!!!</p>
<p>Coaches can be *****les…but your S has the right attitude :)</p>
<p>Mommaof5
So glad son is out of the hospital! My middle child is asthmatic. Very scary at times. And congrats on the Boys State!</p>
<p>ACT/SAT – My kid is using the strategy you seem to be leaning towards – Took SAT, scored much lower than expected on W, 2100 total. Sent to Natl Merit. Got a 34 on ACT. Will use ACT for most schools. Not retesting SAT or ACT. We haven’t found a school that won’t use ACT for admission. For Merit - In one case, he e-mailed admissions rep re scholarship that only listed SAT scores and received a reply that ACT scores are also used for the scholarship.</p>
<p>So busy here. Between the 3 kids, I’ve completed 6 Permission slips for field trips yesterday. We have school concerts this week and next, Athletic Banquet, Cardboard boat race (and no he hasn’t started building it yet), ice hockey playoffs, and somewhere in the midst of all this 5 more school projects and finals. I look forward to the end of school more than the kids do!</p>
<p>tx5 – ATM running seriously low on funds here!</p>
<p>Son is attending an Ethics Bowl next week. In my mind, I’m considering it a college visit since he’ll spend time on a college campus. Initially, I thought it was the silliest thing I ever heard of. After reading up on it more, I think I’d rather get my professional ethics credits vi bowl competition than the boring seminars I must attend.</p>
<p>MD, I want to know what three-letter word you had coming out of your mouth!</p>
<p>Congrats on all the good news, everyone. Wow, what an accomplished group we have here.</p>
<p>At our school, the brag sheet is a bit different. The kids have a resume plus a brag sheet, which is are answers to a list of questions where they can talk about how they are and why they do the things they do. The questions include things like, “What do you think is your no. 1 contribution to this school?”</p>
<p>Took ds to the doctor this morning because at one point, briefly, his fever spiked and pains continued. Doc thinks it may not be food poisoning but his gallbladder. Oh great.</p>
<p>Thank you AMA 
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<p>YDS: Let’s see if I can do this without getting *** put in it’s place…W…T…F… 
And sorry to hear about DS have they checked for his appendix??</p>
<p>I need to rant for a minute. Some of you may remember a few weeks back when my smallest child, S17, was kicked in the face in a soccer game and fractured his jaw and knocked a tooth up almost to his eye? The pond scum otherwise known as our insurance company have declined all of the charges, and have also completely rejected the CT scan charge because we didn’t get prior authorization. Seriously? Tuition is going to look like a deal after the costs for this mess.</p>
<p>89Wahoo: I’m so sorry!!! Is there anyway you can go higher up the food chain to get a better result from your insurance company??</p>
<p>Prior authorization in what is clearly an emergency situation? That’s just wrong. There must be an appeal process, right?</p>
<p>MD, lol! Got it!</p>
<p>wahoo, I had an insurance situation that turned out to be an issue with miscoding. It took some work on my part, but the insurance company finally paid what, yeah, was more than a year’s worth of college tuition! Good luck.</p>
<p>MDM: That coach sounds clueless! Good for S taking the high road, it’s always more fun to PROVE your coach wrong!</p>
<p>TX5: I am definitely an ATM - too bad it’s empty! DS asked for check for b-ball camp. I told him to tell his coach not to cash until Friday ;)</p>
<p>YDS: Sorry about DS, hope he is better soon!</p>
<p>89wahoo: Hope it can all get figured out. I know your pain. DH works for local hospital, but S’16 got sent by one of our docs to hosp in another town. I knew everything would be covered at our hospital - now waiting for financial fallout for being at another hospital for 3 days. Ugh!</p>
<p>89wahoo: Don’t give up, keep at it. </p>
<p>Having a stressful week with DDb13. She is supposed to be two or three places at once this week. She needs one of those Harry Potter time turner do-dads. I think we have it all worked out after a couple of phone calls to the involved parties. I was proud of DD making those calls and taking care of it herself. </p>
<p>Took the dog to the vet today to get his OFA x-rays done. That was $300 and to send these x-rays off to be graded is another $100. All because I was sold a “pet” quality dog that turned out to be awesome. Sigh. My breeder is kicking herself for not keeping this boy, lol.</p>
<p>Getting email and snail mail every day from Vandy. It’s a tad excessive but I’m hoping it means that they think based on scores that she is at least qualified? I would never pay that kind of tuition so even if she got in, it’s a real reach without them ponying up serious merit money.</p>
<p>Off to buy study guides for DDb13 so she can hopefully enter Scholarship Land by gaining a couple of points on the ACT.</p>
<p>Wow! Bad coaches and bad insurance companies! We have dealt with both so I feel your pain!!</p>
<p>Walker: Jr used the “Real ACT” test guide deal…can’t remember the full name. It is the one recommended on the college board site.</p>
<p>Momma: Thanks The boy is hell bent on showing his Coach exactly how clueless he is.</p>
<p>ATM: Does it seem like ASB camp, sports fees, etc go up every year :/</p>
<p>MDM, your son sounds like he has the right attitude with an idiot coach. We’ve had a few of those too.</p>
<p>Yds, I hope you get some answers and DS turns around soon.</p>
<p>Wahoo, was the ct done in the ER? Definitely appeal, and talk to the doctor about resubmitting. I hope it gets resolved in your favor.</p>
<p>Good news here. Thanks to DDs awesome case manager, she was able to get the ACT decision reversed, so DD gets extended time. I just got the notice. What a relief! Now, if DD will pick up the study guide… </p>
<p>ATM here too, and running out as well! DD just made an elite team for the fall, and the cost is steep!</p>
<p>Sent from my DROID2 GLOBAL using CC</p>
<p>I absolutely hate dealing with our medical insurance company. I had the pleasure of introducing our D (20 yr old) to the particular joy of automated phone hell by making her call to change her mailing address yesterday. Now she understands why I’m in a bad mood when I have to deal with insurance. BTW, new insurance just denied coverage on 3 of our medications that we’ve been taking for over 10 years! Suggested we try over-the-counter solutions instead…I hope they are prepared to cover S’13’s hospital visit when he stops taking his asthma medication!</p>
<p>Ann: That is good news indeed!! And I feel your pain on team fees 
One year of All Star Cheer for D14 equals just about all of the fees we ever paid for Jr’s years in Little League and Jr All-American Football…COMBINED.</p>
<p>Megp: What a bunch of idiots! If he has been taking the same prescription meds for over 10 years, than OBVIOUSLY an over-the-counter won’t work.</p>
<p>Any coach can make a bad call regarding who is doing what. They are a bad coach if they don’t fess up and apologize for their mistake. This coach does sound like a ******. lol</p>
<p>My DDa13 worked very hard at swimming. Her goal was to make it to 14 and under long course state. Did doubles every day and was finishing up cross country season running varsity in 8th grade. She made that goal and qualified for several events. She had earned the right to be on the A relay for the medley (200 and 400). At the last minute the coach made a decision to call two girls who had converted times for short course that would qualify them for the meet but they had chosen not to go for whatever reason. Those girls came up the next day and bumped my D into the B relay. I have never seen her so mad and frustrated. I told her that she had two choices. To suck it up and prove to the coach that he had made a mistake, or two, refuse to swim the B relay. I told her that I would back her on either decision (btw, she had PB’s in every individual event that she had swum at the meet thus far). She decided to go and swim like a BEAST, dropping even more time in the 100 and 50 fly from her PB’s in the individual events. She made that coach look like an idiot. She didn’t say a word to him. He came up to D after the relays and apologized to her in front of the team. She learned something that day and so did he. </p>
<p>Tell your son that he just schooled his coach. I’d make a copy of the ACT report and tape it on his office door.</p>
<p>I LOVE THIS!!!
Would love to have our “Disney Movie” moment where the Coach realizes how wrong he was, but not sure if it will happen We secretly think he is also a bit upset at Jr getting interest from Colleges without his help. Oh…the ego’s of a Coach.</p>
<p>And ya, I’m pretty sure the ACT report sent a shock wave through him ;)</p>
<p>But just like your DD, this will prove to be (what I feel) as a great turning point for Jr. How our kids react to these kind of situations can go one of 2 ways. Either really good (like in your DD case) or really bad. Pretty sure Jr will be on the REALLY GOOD side :D</p>
<p>MDMom: Some people never get it. Even if you taped it to a bat and beat him with the evidence of his idiocy, he wouldn’t apologize or acknowledge in any way that he was wrong. Your S will definitely be the better off having had this experience even though it was hard at the time. I have faith!!!</p>
<p>Disney moment, lol</p>
<p>Anniezz: YAY for daughter!!! I hope she has a great ACT!</p>
<p>megpmom: So sorry for asthma medication mess. As a mom whose kid just got out of the hospital for asthma, I hope they get a clue BEFORE it comes to that!</p>
<p>Walker1194: you are definitely right about coaches. DS got asked by coach to give his uniform to a better player who forgot his, DS said he would do whatever was best for the team. Whole team got upset and they ended up finding a different uniform for better player before game started, but damage had been done. Coach later apologized and DS got coaches award, basically because he would give you the shirt off of his back;)</p>