Parents of the HS Class of 2013

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<p>Anniezz, congratulations on your DD’s junior speech!</p>

<p>89wahoo, my D is taking the Chemistry subject test tomorrow. She plans to take the reasoning test again in October as she hopes to increase her score a smidge and then take the Math II subject test in November. I’ve got my fingers crossed for your D - I hope she improves her score!</p>

<p>reeinaz, we don’t have many AP classes available so I don’t grudge the subject tests, but certainly with AP tests, ACT, SAT it really starts to mount up!</p>

<p>Vandygrad, I’ve heard good things about “Best Exotic Marigold Hotel” with Judi Dench, Bill Nighy and Maggie Smith. I’ve been thinking of seeing it when I’ve got time.</p>

<p>re: Music, I listen to a huge range - rap, rock, jazz, classical … Currently I’ve been listening to flamenco guitar by Jesse Cook. </p>

<p>Good luck to all those taking the SAT tomorrow!</p>

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<p>No subject tests for my D either, and I’m glad. It’s a busy enough time of year now with finals coming up, so its nice to not have to worry about taking another standardized test. Also horse show season has started, which is very time consuming for her.</p>

<p>My S’10 took 2 subject tests, but he was aiming at more selective schools than D is. It really seems to be only the more selective schools that ask for subject tests. Also, at many schools, if you submit ACT scores the subject tests are not required, even if they are required when the SAT is submitted.</p>

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<p>DD13a is taking Math II and History subject tests tomorrow. Has she taken a practice test or looked at anything? Nope. I am so frustrated with both of my kids about the college process right now. I’ve been in a horrible mood for about a week. We are thinking about enlisting a college counselor to help minimize the stress. I got to the point earlier this week and said “well, I guess you’ll both be going to your free ride school and living at home since you aren’t taking care of your business now.” That resulted in a screaming match. Sigh.</p>

<p>We don’t get report cards here, it’s all on-line. DD13a got all A’s (I think her total GPA is a 3.9U or something since she did get a B in AP Chem last year). DD13b got one B in Adv. Physics. She always gets one B a year but she works hard and I don’t complain. The only thing that irritates me is that it’s always a high B (87-89) but some schools that recalculate using their own formulas, a high B doesn’t matter. She will be lumped in with kids at the other end with say an 81. Of course that point is mote if she ends up at the family safety school! </p>

<p>RE Music: Big Buffett fans here and all kinds of other stuff. DH plays in a band with some coworkers so he is always playing one guitar or another. His first guitar is named The Other Woman because he spent so much time playing it when he first got it. Now his other woman is the MBA program! That’s almost done though. Thank God!</p>

<p>Gloomy and rainy here, and a big crowd of teens expected at my house tonight for a surprise party for DD13b’s BFF. It’s her birthday and she will be moving to CO soon :((. Poor kid. I wish her dad would just let her live with us to finish out her senior year. We offered.</p>

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<p>D is not taking the SAT tomorrow, but is taking the ACT again next weekend. She took the ACT in April and did well without any prep. She liked the format of the test much better than the SAT, so she has decided to take it one more time to try to bring her composite score up a point or two. She has only taken the SAT once and has taken three SAT subject tests in two different sittings. She did not study for the subject tests and only took them because our flagship recommends them. Her results were less than stellar, but she is not taking them again. I hate all this testing, too, and especially do not like the practice of recommending the subject tests. Require them or not, but don’t throw it back in the student’s ball court to determine what is best. Having said that, flagship says they can’t hurt your application. Still, D is conflicted and this is really the only part of testing that has stressed her. She will have four AP scores by the time of application and I agree with you, 89wahoo, that these could be used as easily as subject tests.</p>

<p>D has two more weeks of school left, but only one week of classes. The last week is exam week, and she only has to take three exams. Unfortunately, her third exam is the last day of exam week, so she will be there to the end.:frowning: Graduation is next Wednesday, so she is involved in a lot of orchestra rehearsal for the event. AP English Lang teacher has decided to teach them (post AP test) everything they missed by not being in honors Engish class, so they got the condensed version of Shakspeare lessons, but full long version of hard test.:frowning: D came down the steps this morning and for the first time ever said she was tired and wished school was over. However, she is very excited for gov school and officially registered for her classes this week!:)</p>

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<p>Hey all. Been out of town for a few days and it’s way too hard to keep up with you on the road. I like the “Rob’d” t-shirt idea and thanks for the REM suggestion (my fav).</p>

<p>Good luck to the test takers this weekend. Thankful we are done here.</p>

<p>Pleasant news here. S’13 accidently found out he was given an honorable mention for the all-county tennis team. He found out only because a classmate congratulated him. He had no idea why he was being congratulated and had to ask why and then look it up in the local paper on-line. He was the No. 5 singles on his team, so he never even thought to look.</p>

<p>Finals next week, so very close to done.</p>

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<p>Morning, iPeeps.</p>

<p>I decided to give up trying to catch up and just wish everyone well. :)</p>

<p>School finished here this week, and ds has been on the go. He has this really tight group of friends, and starting tomorrow they begin to scatter so it feels like they’re trying to squeeze in three months into three days. In the past five days, there’s been a football game against the seniors, a volleyball day, river tubing, pool party, PuttPutt, lunches out. He’s actually skipping a pontoon boat thing today to help his dad in his classroom. Tomorrow he’ll take two subject tests (history, Latin). He hasn’t studied at all. Last night, we attended a graduation ceremony for 2012. I’m excited to think that will be us next year.</p>

<p>In good news, he got his grades and was sooo proud of himself. He definitely raised his overall GPA, managing to pull an 88 for BC Cal for the semester (remember, he was failing at one point)! He texted me the great news. Apparently, the kids were checking their grades on someone’s iPhone while at the pool party. LOL</p>

<p>Next week, his older brother is home from college. We’re all looking forward to that. :)</p>

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<p>DD is taking ACT next weekend too. She has finals Mon-Wed and then hopefully will do some prep for the ACT. Good news/bad news - she is grounded for making a bad choice (ugh high schoolers!) so she will be home with no facebook, twitter or texting - she will have nothing else to do but study! </p>

<p>She took the SAT in the fall - I think it is very good but she wants to take again in fall - I hope she does so well on the ACT that she gives up the testing! I hate it!!! She took 2 subject tests in May and didn’t do as well as she wanted - USH and Math II - did better on USH but that is because she was studying for AP test - did NO prep for Math II - I think she learned that a little prep can go a long way! </p>

<p>Vandy - movie suggestion - I don’t see many movies but my dh and I saw “Think like a man” last weekend and I thought it was hilarious - take a look at the reviews.</p>

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<p>Well, here is an interesting tidbit. I’m pretty sure we are not completely nuts when I read things like this:</p>

<p>A Pennsylvania father pleaded guilty to child endangerment for abandoning his teenage daughter at a mall over a bad grade she received at school. </p>

<p>Tuan Huynh, 47, of Montgomery County PA, dropped his 16-year-old daughter off near Cheltenham Square Mall and told her she could not come home, Fox affiliate WTXF-TV reported. He told the teenager she no longer met her parents’ expectations because she had received a bad grade on a calculus test, according to the station.</p>

<p>Assistant District Attorney Cara McMenamin told the station that the girl wandered around the Cheltenham Mall for hours before a minister finally approached her and called for help.</p>

<p>Huynh pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of a child. He is not allowed to return home until he has completed parenting classes, the station reported. </p>

<p>Huynh could have faced up to five years in jail, but instead he will do two years of probation and 100 hours of community service.</p>

<p>McMenamin claims Huynh had no remorse for what he did and said he can do with his child what he sees fit.</p>

<p>A Pennsylvania father pleaded guilty to child endangerment for abandoning his teenage daughter at a mall over a bad grade she received at school. </p>

<p>Tuan Huynh, 47, of Montgomery County, dropped his 16-year-old daughter off near Cheltenham Square Mall and told her she could not come home, Fox affiliate WTXF-TV reported. He told the teenager she no longer met her parents’ expectations because she had received a bad grade on a calculus test, according to the station.</p>

<p>Assistant District Attorney Cara McMenamin told the station that the girl wandered around the Cheltenham Mall for hours before a minister finally approached her and called for help.</p>

<p>Huynh pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of a child. He is not allowed to return home until he has completed parenting classes, the station reported. </p>

<p>Huynh could have faced up to five years in jail, but instead he will do two years of probation and 100 hours of community service.</p>

<p>McMenamin claims Huynh had no remorse for what he did and said he can do with his child what he sees fit.</p>

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<p>Hello board it’s been entertaining to read all of your posts and as others have said I cannot keep up at all. My s is taking the chem, math 2 and latin subject tests tomorrow. He might do japanese and bio in October. thankfully he is done with SAT 1. exciting news- he got a scholarship to do a homestay in Japan this summer. They say not to bring his iPhone - that is making me nervous!
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<p>David, the homestay sounds great! And, finally, someone else doing Latin. :)</p>

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<p>Good morning! After two weeks of practice every night it was nice to have S3 on the couch at home all week. Of course it would have been nicer if he was studying for tomorrow’s SAT!! Oh well, can’t have everything.</p>

<p>Music: It was DH’s philosophy that the kids needed to get used to noise so from the moment they came home from the hospital we always had music on, often loud. </p>

<p>Congratulations to everyone who is done for the year. We have 3 more weeks, 2 of classes. Next week they get out early Thursday and Friday while the seniors present their “senior projects”. Anyone else’s school do senior projects? Ours are done over the whole year and involve researching various careers, selecting one, doing an interview with someone who has that career, doing I think 16 or 20 “observation hours”, writing a paper on it and doing a power point presentation on it in front of a board of I think 4, including teachers, administrators and a member from the community.</p>

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<p>tx5 - that senior project sounds great! My dd’s school used to require the rising juniors to do a job shadow in the summer but for some reason they got rid of that requirement last year - its a shame because I want my rising senior to do one or two this summer and it would be easier to convice her if it was a requirement for school!</p>

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<p>89wahoo
I think I’m with that father. I really can’t see how dropping a 16 yr old at the mall is endangerment. Endangerment to me would be moving and not giving a forwarding address. I’m not strict, but my kids have to start stepping up grades & chores. We as a society, expect these kids to be functioning adults, but we coddle them into their 20s.</p>

<p>wherenext
My niece is at American. She LOVES it.</p>

<p>My son will go to any part of the country but the mid-west and north of our area. He’d prefer Southern California. Loves Colorado College. But really, the focus now is on matches with hopes of affording.</p>

<p>1 week of school left.</p>

<p>Still in search of summer job. As last resort, he will volunteer for a political campaign. It is in walking distance :)</p>

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<p>Hi, everyone! I just got back from camping…the easy way…and am WAY behind in reading messages! Seems like sex has been a big topic, though…lol. :slight_smile: </p>

<p>terinzak, I’m sorry about your cat. It’s hard to lose a long-time friend; you’ll be in my thoughts…</p>

<p>longhaul, what were you talking about with the college match thing and having 25-55 before gpa dropped???</p>

<p>A big thanks to everyone who commented on the dilemma we are having with our son. His difficult school experience has had to do with the school system not recognizing the fact that he is not “normal” and trying to treat him as if he is. He has friends in high school and runs track and cross-country…and he’s fine socially (just a little quiet); however, he seemed to be most comfortable with the younger college students when he was taking that level coursework in middle school. So I guess I understand what people are saying re: treat him like a college student…b/c he will be one. I got it! :wink: But I’ll definitely look at schools that accept younger students…</p>

<p>Our school system requires all juniors to take the ACT. Of course, S’13 didn’t study and managed to pull off a 35. I don’t get any of the stuff you all are talking about re: SAT subject tests and all. That’s not stressed around here. Is that, perhaps, the reason they require the kids to take the ACT???</p>

<p>Anyone with potential NMSFs/NM commendation recipients on their hands? Or anyone who has dealt with this in the past? I haven’t seen anyone talking about those SATs…which will be in the fall, right?</p>

<p>Everyone’s kids seem to be working really hard…you all should be so proud of what they’re accomplishing! I can’t wait to see how it’ll all pay off next year! :)</p>

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<p>Congratulations dadotwoboys on your S’s honorable mention. What a great surprise for him!</p>

<p>Youdon’tsay, great news about your S’s BC Cal grade! Also, given the schedule that you described above, I’d have been very surprised if he’d found time to study for the SAT subject tests!</p>

<p>David, congratulations for your S’s scholarship for the homestay. I bet he’ll have lots of fun!</p>

<p>tx5athome, the seniors here have projects too, but I don’t think they’re as comprehensive as you’ve described. They are basically to help make sure that the senior has done some planning for post graduation education/work and to document work/volunteer hours that may contribute to their goals. I gather from what S’12 says, though, that despite the fact that the project is required for graduation, many seniors are late handing the various stages in! He did most of his over Christmas break as he had completed everything by then and is very smug now!</p>

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<p>Woooo-Hooooo!!! It’s Friday!!! :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :slight_smile: :)</p>

<p>Test: Good luck to EVERYONE taking SAT/SAT 2/ACT tests tomorrow. Wishing you all a “one and done” type of test!</p>

<p>Playlist: If we are going full 80’s need to add Billy Idol and Depeche Mode to that mix :wink:
We are HUGE Reggae fans in our house. So having some Bob in there is a MUST!!</p>

<p>Our kids: I’ll be the first to put a $50 on at least ONE couple coming out of this group. All of us here seem to have great genes…why not keep that streak going!! At some point, we should do a private group on Facebook so can exchange pics, etc </p>

<p>Jr had a Sr promotion Mass yesterday and was given his Sr rosary. I saw it on his dresser and tears just started flowing…get ready Walker…the time is getting closer :’(</p>

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<p>MD, I had a teary moment this morning. I’ve been out of town and so busy that today was the first time I said to myself, My baby is a senior. <em>gulp</em> He seems to have really matured in the past couple of months. I think he’s ready. Am I?</p>

<p>ETA: And I was just sitting here trying to figure whether ds1 would be out of school in time to see ds2 graduate. Argh, it’ll be close.</p>

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<p>YDS: I can say, without a doubt, that I am NOT ready. Which is one of the many reasons I LOVE THIS GROUP. It is the one place I can come without someone in my family looking at me like I have lost my mind.</p>

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<p>RE: father and mall. While agree that dropping a kid off at a mall is not necessarily ‘endangerment,’ if you make it clear that she is not welcome to come back home, then you actually are guilty of putting your 16yr old out on the street (even if you put her out in a very nice environment.) The mall is eventually going to close, and this girl is going to have nowhere to sleep. I guess 16 is not too young to make it out on your own, but I can tell you that I would have likely died if my parents had just dropped me at a local mall and said “don’t come home.” I didn’t have any of the ‘adult’ coping skills one would need to get a job, find a place to stay, etc. </p>

<p>And I have to say, if the reason the father did it is because of a less that desirable grade on a calculus test? I think that there are probably other (less harsh) punishments the father could have implemented other than ‘goodbye, don’t come home.’ I’m only going on the information presented in the article however, so I really don’t know the whole story. </p>

<p>Now, are there times that I have ‘thought’ about dropping Step-D off at a mall and just driving away?? Hmmmm…maybe I’d better plead the fifth on that one :wink: </p>

<p>Good luck to the SAT takers tomorrow! Step-D takes the ACT next week. Took a practice ACT today so hopefully she’ll get good feedback on Monday about it and feel confident going into next Saturday!!</p>

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<p>Today was the day we went to tour the University of Utah. Even tho I thought I knew everything—I was wrong! The most important thing I learned was that laundry is FREE!!! No quartere required AND the students can go online and see if a washer is available in their dorm! Times sure have changes!</p>

<p>Even tho the U is in Salt Lake you’d never know it. You never heear the city and can barely see it. It’s a beautiful campus!</p>

<p>DS wasn’t impressed until he talked to one of the mechanical Engineering advisors. he pulled out robots that students had made and told DS that they start building them as freshmrn. The deal clincher was when he let DS play with them!!</p>

<p>DS has now officially moved the U to the top of the list–bg smile from me!</p>