<p>for everyone with too many snow days, this was cute:
<a href=“Principal gives school closing the 'Bohemian Rhapsody' treatment”>http://www.today.com/news/principal-gives-school-closing-bohemian-rapsody-treatment-2D12054054</a></p>
<p>HAHAHAHA! That ^^is AWESOME! Thanks @mom2twotallgirls!</p>
<p>@mom2twotallgirls, My D’s environment has not been encouraging academic planning either. Nobody around her in her grade has taken the SAT or ACT and got anything decent. (A few took SAT but well, they got something like 1500) But D agrees with me that it’s beneficial to get these tests done early, because she has some camp friends who are seniors this year and she saw how they struggle and are absolutely miserable. On the other hand, some other camp friends got the tests done last year and this year they’re just focusing on college applications and senior courses and prep for colleges and having a good time. Some already got into the colleges by ED. Maybe showing her some examples on both sides will work better than parents talking. </p>
<p>People ask D about what colleges, what majors, type of question all the time. Sometimes she was asked in front of me and I was always curious to hear how she responded. It’s interesting that what she replies has always been different from what she tells me to a certain degree, not by whole a lot. Mostly she has been consistent. </p>
<p>@Maxwellequations Interestingly, I think her school is doing quite well in encouraging planning, etc. And some of D’s friends have been in specific prep courses, etc. But I’m thinking D is a <em>touch</em> arrogant perhaps? [-( And thinking she doesn’t need to put in much effort. I thought maybe the SAT result would have woken her up a bit, but no…so she’s just going to have to pay the price. Or, I could be totally wrong, she could ace the ACT, and I’ll have to eat crow!</p>
<p>Party in @HeliMom74’s looney bin! You’re all invited! @3girls3cats can bring crackers, and @twogirls is in charge of wine. I’ll bring California pistachios to keep the rest of us nuts crackin’. :)</p>
<p>Question: I am lucky in that I have some control over my work schedule during the school year, but I have to pre-schedule it. I am in the process of setting up the schedule for next year (D’s senior year) and I am thinking there will be days that I really want to be off of work. Any suggestions on days I should plan ahead for if I can? </p>
<p>Snow day today; just got the call for another one tomorrow.
A four-day weekend. Four days without wearing pants? The gauntlet (and proper pants) has been thrown down. I accept the challenge.</p>
<p>@shoboemom
Day before graduation, definitely. Day of robing/cap and gown photos. Will your child be having any kind of athletic signing day? Hmm…the Friday of each Finals week, so you can deliver pizza for lunch. I did this last year with 2015 daughter and earned the slavish devotion of her lunch circle.</p>
<p>You have to schedule that far ahead? Yikes. Based on my experience last year trying to slalom around business travel, I’d prioritize significant “lasts” (performances, athletic events, etc.), the day that ED results are released if she applies somewhere early, and the day leading up to prom. Oh, and commencement, of course. </p>
<p>You’ll also want to give your boss an early heads up that you may need some days off in April 2015 for admitted students events if you wind up on the USS Indecision and want to accompany your D to one or more of those. </p>
<p>@mom2twotallgirls, you never know! I remember once when she was a frosh I was sure she’d fail that AP test because she was lazy and not concentrating. but she got a 5. I was just … yes I admit I was a fool but I could admit anything as long as you got a 5 LOL. Good luck! Think positive. </p>
<p>I’d say that the important days are mostly high school-related, not college related. Once they get into senior year, the college stuff is on them, not on the parents. Some parents go to accepted students weekends, but I’m very much in favor of sending the student by herself so as not to parentally taint the experience.</p>
<p>We just finished a meeting with D’s principal about her HS schedule for next year. Normally we see her GC for this but her principal used to teach math and is uniquely tuned in to STEM college programs, plus he offered. Looks like AP Calc (AB), AP Spanish 5, English 12, Econ/Psych, Physics II, and either AP Stats or AP Environmental Sci. He suggested physics II and also suggested she make sure she has a study hall with it. He didn’t express a preference for Stats or Enviro but did discuss the merits of each and said if she didn’t take either one she should consider APUSH instead of Econ/Psych. So she still has decisions to make but it was helpful to get his take on some of the options.</p>
<p>He also said if she graduates with 7 APs that will be great because the most anyone from our HS has ever had is 9. I thought that was interesting, but not surprising given access to APs is tightly controlled here, and there are a lot of pre-reqs that make it difficult to take any more.</p>
<p>I would suggest the prom!</p>
<p>I am having trouble keeping up here with who said what!!
3girls I think it was you who said your D wants to take a subject test in a language she studied in middle school?? :)). I don’t think I could keep a straight face if my kid said that LOL!!</p>
<p>Mihcal I can use a good party!! I will bring wine as long as people do not mind the $3.99 variety. The looney bin is fine as long as there is no snow. </p>
<p>Who posted that they finally have a no-snow day and there is no school due to conferences?? b-( You can’t make this stuff up!!!</p>
<p>Shoboe I found it helpful to take off of work for college visits after they were accepted and they were trying to narrow it down ( there is a name for these visits but I forgot). Aha- Accepted students day!! I also took a half day off for Senior Prom and for her senior game where they honored the seniors. Next year will be sad- a year of lasts as D15 is my youngest. However… Soon after that D12 comes home for an internship so the nest won’t be empty for too long. </p>
<p>Oh and I try my best not to discuss college with family. I got tired of hearing comments from relatives of relatives about how D12 choice is terrible because there is a drug clinic nearby, there is nothing to do, blah blah blah. If you have nothing nice to say about my kid’s choice ( where she is very happy) then please be quiet!! 
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<p>You guys make my day. Can’t stop laughing (which is so much better than crying). It seems everything, including the can of soup I’m holding, comes with directions…and yet parenting (the most important job) comes with no directions but plenty of guilt. </p>
<p>Don’t tell anyone, but I never did pass my Dad Licensing Exam. </p>
<p>So my D asked her teacher a question the other day that I felt was a bit nervy… She said " why aren’t you the department chair when you have been here for 33 years, and Mr. X is the dept chair and he has been here for 8 years"? The teacher looked at my kid and said, " Politics." I told her not to ask those questions anymore… [-X </p>
<p>twogirls, I had to tell my D to muzzle it whenever religion is discussed in a class (e.g., AP World). </p>
<p>I never thought I would have to take off special days during D’s senior year. I usually grab the kids’ school calendars (one private school and one public school means very little overlapping events/breaks) in August and write out all my leave requests for the next nine or ten months. Only my director from h3ll objected; the others actually liked having advance notice. Oh, yet another reason to push for early action applications…</p>
<p>BTW, is the looney bin padded?</p>
<p>I think looney bins are padded- it’s a prerequisite. 
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