@CA1543 yes, the board breaking is brutal on the hand (or feet for some). I was a bad mom in that case, I splinted him myself and let the swelling go down and went to the regular doc on monday versus paying for the ER. My reg doc confirmed it was the right call. He is convinced he won’t be able to play the trombone at all, we will see. Lots of school left. I guess the only good news is the AP tests are done.
@mtrosemom that is so great that your son is ITF as well! We were all a bit sad when S quit. He had to take some time off after the break and then HS started. Once he added in HS sports and stage crew, the scheduling of TKD on top of it all (he had been on the demo team as well) was just impossible. Sad though. Our studio was very big on ITF, they would test for national first and then 6 months later, international, at least through 2nd degree. I forget the spacing but the higher you went up, the longer the required gaps between tests.
@Mom2aphysicsgeek I don’t think so but I wasn’t at the ER. I’ll get the xrays today I think.
Some schools that people think track interests don’t indeed do it.
Even the ones track interest, their marketing and admissions departments don’t seem to talk to each other.
@MotherOfDragons I think my dd is feeling the same way. There are times when she says that she can’t believe she is a sr and that things are happening too fast. She mentioned yesterday that she doesn’t want to apply to ASU b/c it is so far away. Her older siblings have all been more than ready by this point to jump head first into leaving (they have very hard heads! LOL!!!)
If our oldest had been born 150 yrs ago, at 16 he would have jumped on a horse’s back and said, “I’m heading west. Love you. Bye!”
They all have very different personalities. Being intimidated by the process is a perfectly valid emotion.
@Mom2aphysicsgeek ok now I want to know how you know lol. I can’t see the break on the X-rays but can see the growth plates and allegedly it’s in there. Arm is not broken but there is a connection to the elbow and they’ve said that has to be immobilized as well. We will see what the Ortho says on Tuesday.
So much for the tutoring session he was supposed to do for a freshman tomorrow. Right now he is most concerned with precalc and his ability to do any work on that.
@262mom I think it is the right call. He protested a little saying he could do it without the essay but agreed that it’s just a lot to have on his plate with regular class work now being significantly more challenging.
@RightCoaster I don’t miss the holiday weekend ones either, you can’t make any plans at all. However we do miss watching her play. She plays club at her college (OOS) and due to the location we’ve yet to see her play and it’s a bummer!
@eandesmom , Oooooouch!! I felt the sympathy pain reading about the board breaking! I had no idea they allow teenagers to do that. I thought that’s only for adult black belt people. Ouch ouch ouch.
This bugged my daughter to no end (and, due to travel limitations, our first serious college visits were when she was a rising sophomore, so she’s had plenty of time to be annoyed by it), but it eventually got to be so commonplace that she gave up on it.
The only colleges of the 17 she’s visited who seemed to maybe marginally even try on this were Mt Holyoke, Earlham, and (even more marginally) Muhlenberg, in that the stuff urging visits that they’ve sent since then could be read as urging a visit to make sure, not just a first look—but then again, in every of those cases, it’s probably more that the “Come visit us!” stuff they send out is crafted to be ambiguous in that way.
But Kansas is the weirdest, and in it’s entirely own category, because she gets stuff from them that clearly assumes a previous visit (“When you visited our campus, you learned about our…”), but simultaneously stuff that assumes no previous visit (“You’ll never really know KU until you visit KU!”), and that approach I totally don’t understand.
My son is also 2nd degree black belt but niot ITF and I think black belt criteria @ most schools is a joke. They are no where close to black belts portrayed in Bruce Lee movies :-). Since DS have heat/dehydration issues, TKD was the only physical activity till recently.
@eandesmom A fall from a bunkbed of all things. Her fracture was pretty severe,but the biggest issue was that it was in the growth plate and the elbow had to be immobilized. It happened the first week of summer. Unfortunately with an elbow bend cast, there is no such thing as a waterproof version. It meant so swimming. No going to the beach (too hot and just not fair to have to watch everyone else.) She was in her cast for 8 weeks.
We have had kids in lower arm casts in the summer. Those aren’t that bad and they can swim in them.
@RightCoaster , our soccer tournament is all weekend out of town for DS20. If they win today, they get to play on Monday. Great, right? One more day of hotel stay!
So, I posted yesterday that we finally received my D’s ACT scores from April 19 in-school testing. I had signed her up to take it again on June 11 (with writing) before we knew her scores. My question for all of you more-experienced parents is about the writing section. I know it’s optional now for many schools, but she got a 33 on the writing this time around. I’m happy with that and I don’t know if she’d improve if she took it again.
Her composite is 32, English 31, Math 29, Reading 35 and Science 32. I do think she could improve her English and Math subsections because she stumbled with the fairly easy stuff (Usage/Mechanics and Pre-Algebra) that should come back with a bit of review. So I think the re-take is a good idea in general, but maybe she should opt out of the writing this time around? Does it even matter if the writing score isn’t required for most schools? I’d hate to have her writing score go down significantly on the retake…
Maybe I am just overthinking. Wouldn’t be the first time
@HiToWaMom yeah, it was painful to watch. I am trying to remember at what point they allow board breaking but it is pretty young to be honest. That said, it was not like he hadn’t done it many many times before.
@srk2017 I was incorrect, his is through WTF, not ITF, or as the studio referred to it, Kukkiwon. It all is a bit blurry at this point but I seem to recall that the criteria was definitely different for the Kukkiwon, I am sure S17 would recall much more clealry!. I guarantee you that the black belts in Bruce Lee movies were not first or second degree black belts, they were grand masters. The higher level belt adults were pretty darn impressive .
@Mom2aphysicsgeek ugh, those falls never seem to go well. The fracture doesn’t look severe at all to me but what do I know. His last cast was not waterproof as it would have cost quite a bit more. We did have a special sleeve that we could shrink wrap over it and that worked really well but we will see what they say. He will live without swimming until late June without any issues (though he does have camp the first week of july and that will be a drag) but the shower issue is a bigger pita. I do recall we kept the last one on longer to be safe given the growth plate. Which was a good thing as we went out of town and rented bikes. Like the amazing mom I am, I didn’t consider that part of the trail we were on would be gravel, downhill and the bike had handbrakes. Good thing he still had that cast on!
He has a job interview tomorrow, that should be interesting. His friend who who works there says it shouldn’t be an issue and it’s a second interview but ugh. Not sure how much you can do at a hardware store with an arm in a cast and sling! It’s pretty low hours to start during school so hopefully they can be flexible especially if it really is only 4-6 weeks since he is looking at this as a permanent part time job, not just summer.
What are of the country or other things are you looking for in a school? University of Washington is quite strong in all 3 areas, direct admit engineering is extremely competitive and I’m not sure how a double major would play with that but suspect Poly Sci might be easier to pull off. My H did undergrad and grad in engineering and then went back for his MBA separately. I don’t know how many folks attempt a double major with engineering but I’m sure some folks here will have ideas!
@picklesarenice - 33 writing is very nice. I would recommend not taking writing again given the inconsistent scores, but she can try ACT without writing
@picklesarenice Just be aware you can’t (usually?) use score choice when sending ACT scores. 33 is a fabulous score, but 25 is great too…this year. If you don’t take the next one with Writing the you have to send the first score for those schools that require writing (you may add schools to your list).
Ah, World TKD is much more common than International TKD. My husband is a 2nd degree in W-TKD but switched to ITF when the kids started taking it. S still participates and you do have to work years between black belts before testing for the next level… Testing for 3rd degree means 3 years of training between 2nd and 3rd. S is unlikely to ever get to 3rd degree.
@SincererLove I am starting to have posters blur together. Is your child searching for merit $$ or planning on applying to top competitive schools?
Bama has a STEM MBA program that is completed by having a 5th yr. NMF’s can use their 5th yr for the program. The program also has scholarships for top students for the 5th yr. http://manderson.culverhouse.ua.edu/academics/departments/mba_program/stem_path_to_the_mba
I don’t know much more about it than that, but ds has 2 friends involved in it. He was talking to older ds about it and older ds wishes he had had an opportunity like that. His dream is to use his chemE background to start his own microbrewery and wishes he had some business background.
