Anyone dealing with senior pranks? Long story short, my DS told me they were doing theirs last night and he was participating. Alarm bells! I also wanted to say “I wish you hadn’t told me!” but of course that’s a terrible message. It wasn’t a prank with safety concerns, and well, when I woke up at 1, he was in bed and none of my worst case scenarios I was envisioning had happened. But it felt like 18 years of parenting were compressed into a 3 min conversation with him and then about an hour rattling around my head!
@lemon_drop (I have no clue how to tag people with spaces in their names)- the school is so small that our kids are bound to meet at some point! I’m so excited for all the kids going off to grey schools and ready to do great things!
@BorgityBorg Great choice! Mac was a top contender for my kid!
@ninakatarina Congrats on your S’s great performance - kids always like to play their successes down, and pretend that it was all bay chance. I’m sure that he aced his lines.
Yep guys, we’re entering the final stretch (except for @dfbdfb who’s DONE). Deep breath and let’s get this done!
@dfbdfb I am impressed! I am not a crier at all but I keep finding myself tearing up at little things. Yesterday it was when I drove home at the same time elementary school lets out, I got a little sentimental seeing the little kids walking out with their moms and remembering when D used to get out and be all excited to tell me about her day.
@AlexDs2019 - Welcome and congrats on the decision!
@BorgityBorg -Welcome back and congrats on Macalaster!
@carolinamom2boys You have to let us know how the haircut donut comes out. 
@ChicagoSportsFn Wow - busy weekend -hope it is all wonderful!
@ninakatarina My D21 was heavy into theater until a bad high school teacher turned her off. 
I can imagine how annoyed she would have been if sound and lights were off! But I am sure your S was amazing, they can never see how great they really are. 
We have 2 more days here, after Tuesday D only has a few AP and AIE exams and a few finals. She has to show up for the finals because of her absences but does not have to pass them - so crazy. So far she will only have to take 3 I think. She has 5 classes in school - AP Psych said he doesn’t give a final and AICE Environmental said a project they are doing now is their final. That leaves AP English, AP Stats and AP Econ and since all she has to do is show up she is set.
We are still in the middle of our remodel - guest bathroom is done, floors just started today and they say they will rip out my kitchen next week. They know my mom and aunt are coming in 2 weeks for graduation and we are hoping at least the new kitchen cabinets will be up and all that will be left is the countertops. Wishful thinking probably!
Now that the decisions are made, your kids will be busy with other school events, I guess. Prom, finals, graduation assembly, etc. etc.
Do your kids’ schools have Academic Night to celebrate graduating students’ achievement?
My D’s school had asked students to fill a form so that they could announce at the Academic Night —
name of the school you were attending or other destination, name of the award you received, name of the scholarship you were awarded, etc. etc.
My D13 didn’t know anything about financial aid so she wrote IDK in the scholarship section.
Guess what they printed on the brochure!! (both for the Academic Night and the graduation!)
The school principal loudly announced my D’s name followed by the school she was going to attend and this mysterious scholarship called “I.D.K. Scholarship”!!
@milgymfam - you’re Haverford too? Same offer extended. Or to parents with kids at Villanova, Bryn Mawr, even Swat - if you ever need a contact in the area, feel free to pm me.
Ah, yes, the prestigious IDK scholarship. Congratulations! LOL!
My D just shed a tear. She received word that the semester school she attended this fall is closing for good in 2020. She always thought she might work there a semester when she got older.
@HiToWaMom , LOL! Was the principal joking? I hope so! Our school has an academic night. The seniors introduce each other (in alphabetical order) and it’s really lovely…it’s a school small enough where everybody knows everybody, and even those who aren’t friends with who they were introducing came up with nice things to say. And weirdly enough, many of these introductions were for best friends…I guess all of those years of lining up or having lockers next to the person who you are next to alphabetically has an effect over time! (including my son who got to introduce a very close friend).
@TS0104 That sounds SO lovely. Kindness and thinking about others is so lacking these days, this sounds like an especially nice tradition : )
Enjoy!!
@TS0104
Oh no, he was dead serious. He had to read many students’ forms and I don’t think he rehearsed. Some office person handed him the form one by one and he just read the paper as each student comes to the center of the stage.
Your son’s school’s academic night sounds much warmer and wistful. We have so many students that the night can be more automatic routine-like.
@HiToWaMom If I were in your shoes, I probably wouldn’t find the IDK scholarship fiasco very amusing! (Forgive me, but I can’t stop laughing!) Thank you for adding some laugher to my Friday afternoon!
Lol! IDK Scholarship!
Our (small) school has an event at the school where the students talk about each other. They are assigned someone. It’s for the parents and I kept notes when my kids were younger on what awards and scholarships the older kids got. However the big kudus go to the athletes. D16 was annoyed that her NMF was glossed over and her big scholarship not mentioned at all.
It may not be funny now, but I’m sure @HiToWaMom 's family is going to get a lot of laughs/mileage out of that one in the years to come.
@HiToWaMom I am crying with laughter here!!
@HiToWaMom our school does offer and Academic Awards night, but it is under a veil of secrecy, like Fight Club no one can talk about it. We never even knew it existed until son came home last year and announced he was going to the function that night. Wow, we were so shocked and proud and honored and wondered what this great honor was going to be. We talked on the way over to the school, whether it would be one of the STEM awards as he always excelled in that area. Maybe a book award? Maybe scholar athlete? Maybe one of the university specific honors/scholarships?
Well we get in there and there is basically one girl and one boy who won every single award, LOL. Like every single one. Obviously great students! So then they announce my son’s name to come up for his award, Excellence in Forgein Language, a subject he detests, and probably spent about all of a minute on his studies in that subject matter over 3 years! LOL. His facial expression was great, it was hilarious. He was standing there like “ how is this even possible?” He was rather upset because the awards night was right before some big final exam he really needed to study for and we forced him to go to the awards night because we knew he’d certainly be receiving some great honor, ha. He was so mad, lol. Anyways, the following week he filled out his Sr year schedule and he dropped foreign language and felt a lot better.
@RightCoaster So… he hated the subject but excelled? Maybe your son was the third best Foreign Language student after that one girl and that one boy who won every award and the school decided that they should reserve some awards for other students.
Or your son is super humble and actually he is fluent in his chosen language!
I like your reference of the Flight Club. It’s weird that the sports achievements are always celebrated openly but the academic achievements were sometimes hush hush… like some dirty little secrets.
I don’t think he even really excelled at foreign language. They probably had to give out a few awards to some kids other than the two wonderstars or something, ha. Who knows. My kids were friends with one of the kids that won all of the awards so we were happy for him.
My mother used to be in charge of awards at my small, rural high school. They definitely tried to kind of spread the love with the awards. It’s no fun when the same kids get all the awards!