D26’s 1st day of HS was last Wed! We got school supply lists and all that, so our normal annual August copious cash flow out of our bank account started last week, including a purchase of a graphing calculator and paying the extracurricular fee for VEX Robotics. ouch!
D26’s classes are:
- AP Computer Science Principles
- Spanish
- Pre-calculus AB - the teacher is great, which I’m relieved about because math isn’t D26’s strong suit.
- Honors Biology
- AP US Government & Politics - all of the 9th graders take this at her school
- Honors English Lit
- Honors English Language - leads into AP English Language in 10th grade, then AP English Lit in 11th grade. Standard format for all of the HS’ers at her school.
In terms of extracurricular activities, D26 really likes the Robotics club, so she’s doing that. They’ll meet Friday after school until 5 pm and the sessions start this week. D26 isn’t into sports, so we don’t have any of that going on. I’m of the general philosophy that when you’re in 9th grade, it’s ok not to be super scheduled all over the place.
Personality-wise, D26 is a much more reserved & shy kid compared to D24. HATES to do public speaking in class. She’s a good student. Math & physics, though, she usually has to work a lot harder on in order to get B’s. Her choice of doing honors bio this year, followed by AP bio next year, was on purpose because she thinks that biology is pretty easy. For her honors science class for 10th grade, she’s thinking of chemistry, and then will do physics last in 11th grade because she likes that one the least.
D26’s favorite subject is history, but has said that she doesn’t want to be a history teacher or professor, nor does she want to go to law school. We have not pushed her at all on making any choices at this point, but this is just stuff she’s been talking about off and on since the subject comes up w/D24.
She’s kind of interested right now in maybe a career in computing, but does NOT want to be a comp sci major…because of the 2 yr of college math. She asked me over the summer what other options there were. I told her about how some colleges have a BA in computer science which has not as much math required…and also introduced her to the idea of an MIS major. She was pretty interested in the latter.
Hope everybody’s kid’s freshman year kicks off with a bang!