Ours does this as well-- and actually, I’m pretty sure it’s the one @3scoutsmom just wrote out. I’m pretty sure the GC found the current one on CC.
At my school, you have a junior conference in May of junior year to talk about college and you and your parents have to answer questions similar to the ones above beforehand. But that’s the only mandatory meeting for parents. There is a day(PSAT day for 10th and 11th graders) that they spend talking about college applications and stuff. But you can schedule an appointment anytime.
Is my 17yo the only D16 to not have a driver’s liscence? I want her to learn to drive by HS graduation, but she is hesitant. And her school doesn’t have drivers ed and I’m unsure how to even start. Apparently, she might have to be enrolled in driving school to get a learner’s permit. Will have to check state DMV rules this weekend. Any advice?
@dyiu13 She is in a good company. My DD does not plan get her license until after college applications are in. And you don’t have much options, but to drive where we live, since public transportation is not something you want to do here. She is only 16, so she could not do it last year, and she has too much on her plate this year. Something to keep them busy second half of the year.
I don’t have my license either @dyiu13 and I have no plans of getting it anytime soon.
My 17 year-old does nt have her driver’s license yet, and is still working on getting all the required driving hours.
She actually took driver’s ed last summer, (it’s required at her school to graduate, but she took it from an outside driving school) but we had to get the permit extended for another year, as she still hasn’t driven enough. She’s really not interested in driving, although she’s good at it, actually, and not nervous. She just doesn’t care - we live in a place where many things are walking or biking distance.
I also run errands during the weekdays. I need to run more errands on weekends so she can drive! We also plan on doing another college road trip after acceptances. That should help. Only ten hours to go.
I would go the DMV and sign her up for a permit, @dyiu13 , first. Then call some driving schools in the area.
An interesting tidbit - Apparently, in the state of IL, if you wait until you’re 18 to apply for drivers license, then you don’t have to do the required driving hours, which is 50. (You still need driver’s ed in high school to graduate, but don’t need the driving practice part. )
D’s goal is get her license before next June, so she can get a job over the summer.
Anyone plan to attend UCLA open house tomorrow?
@NYdad513 I think our kids go to the same school! Good luck!!
@dyiu13 , my daughter got hers on her 16th birthday…and we had our first snow that day, so it was a trial by (frozen) fire, lol. Oh, and a semi truck backed into her a week later, no lie.
Schools here don’t have drivers ed, but there’s a good driving school that offers courses here in town. Both my kids did that right after getting their permit, before I ever got in the car with them. It was 8 hours of classroom and 8 hours of driving, I think? Maybe less classroom. Was definitely a good investment though. D16’s been driving almost 2 years now, as she turns 18 shortly.
@Ballerina2016, we’ll be at the UCLA open house tomorrow. And as far as driving’s concerned, D16 got her learner’s permit in August, right before school started, but hasn’t started driving yet. She really hasn’t had time to even take her first driving lesson! She’s really in no rush to get her license, but it would be nice if she got it before she goes to college next fall.
D will be turning 17 in the spring and she’s scheduled to take her driving test in a few weeks. She took her required lessons over the summer and has been practicing since. DH has a business trip in a couple months so it will be nice to have D drive herself to school while he’s out of town, because I drive S19 to the metro in the morning.
We won’t be at the open house @ballerina2016 - D is attending her senior BBQ (the first senior event of many).
I think kids in areas with good public transportation are not in as much of a hurry to get their licenses. Our S16 has just started getting practice in the last couple of months. He’s finally gotten to drive during rush hour inside the DC Beltway the last couple of weeks.
@nycgirl28 Welcome and good luck to your kid.
Met GC this afternoon. She suggested that replace one of very competitive schools with less competitive school. We also talked about additional reference letter. DD has three choices and GC recommended if possible to get all three and read first then choose. Not sure we have enough time to do all…
@BeeDAre we lived in Illinois through my D’s 9th grade year, then moved to Iowa. Typically the required driver’s ed was taken by sophomores during the school day for a semester and then the required business ed class the opposite semester.
Anyway, there was a blind girl in my D’s class. She was required to take the book part of driver’s ed in order to graduate, even though she could not do the driving part. I always wondered why. (I know, it was required of everyone else, so why not. But why is it required at all?, especially of those who will never qualify for a license?)
Wow that is an extensive questionnaire. My D’s school does nothing to that extent. Her GC is excellent but he is the exception to the rule (the other ones are ok to sub par - you basically have to give them the road map of what is needed and what to do and then double check that they actually did their part If you do not your child will definitely suffer from lack of guidance or lack of diligence in everything from picking of appropriate classes, class schedules to college application flub ups). The GCs ask for a activity resume or activity sheet but none of the questions like yours and the parents do not get anything to fill out. That is really good. It really helps the GCs know the kids better. Thankfully my D has the best one. My son suffered through two much less than stellar ones…so we know how lucky she truly is.
I never could spell license.
I’m so not impressed with the AP Music Theory teacher! Yes I get that it’s his first year teaching Music Theory but you’d think he’d at least read his own class syllabus! D is taking both Applied Music and AP Music Theory. Both classes have a requirement that students must attend one college or professional performances by specific groups, or have prior approval for a different performance, every nine weeks. She asked her applied music teacher if it could be the same one she went to for the AP music theory class and was told that was fine as long it was on the list or approved by both teachers.
She’s going to a performance of one of her private teachers tonight, yesterday she asked her Applied Music teacher if he would approve this performance. No problem. She went to ask the AP Music Theory teacher for approval and he didn’t know what she was talking about and asked her where she got the idea that she had to attend an outside music performance every nine weeks? She showed him the requirement in the AP Music class syllabus!
During meet the teacher night he stated that he intentionally assigned an enormous amount of difficult homework the first few weeks of school to prompt students that weren’t “serious musicians” to drop his class. Really, a weed out class in high school? What’s sad is that my daughter reported that some really good musicians did drop his class because that couldn’t maintain that level of homework along with their other AP classes and EC’s. Basically he assigned them an entire semester’s worth of work with out teaching it to them and now he is going back over that work at a more reasonable pace and actually teaching it.
I think there are several states where you don’t need to take driver’s ed or do the mandatory hours once you’re 18. I’ve never heard of a state REQUIRING driver’s ed, though, to graduate! What do low-income kids or those with no access to a car do? H didn’t get his license until he was over 21 because he couldn’t possibly have afforded driver’s ed as a teen.
D is not even 16 yet-not until the end of October, so she has no license yet, and really hasn’t had time to work on it. We’d hoped that she could do it last summer, but she ended up taking two trips and running workshops, plus taking classes. so it never happened. Now with the weather turning, we don’t want her to be doing most of her driving in the dark and rain, so maybe in the spring? Who knows?
Our school does not have mandatory meetings with the counselor, but the principal meets with each family and helps kids plan out their college app process. Then there is a student/parent senior night in which they spell out the requirements to graduate. After that, the seniors meet with the senior teachers every Friday to make sure they’re all up to speed. They have three outside people-2 from the Urban League and one from UW who help them with applications and even choosing colleges if anyone is undecided. The counselor is also involved. It’s a very wonderful and unique situation. Of course, this is only possible with a small school with an even smaller senior class.
Nope. S is getting his permit this week, and D won’t get hers for a good while yet. She isn’t mature enough to be trusted with 2000 lbs of vehicle
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S16 leaves for swim practice three or four mornings a week at 5:10 am. Prior to getting his license, one of his parents had to drive him. As a result, he got his license the first day he was eligible to do so.