I am sitting here scrolling and watching Jerry Maguire- love that movie!
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Help meā¦.help you!
I feel the need to say this to people at work almost weekly! 
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Congratulations 
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D26 is on the yearbook committee so I asked her and she said no ads from parents but they do ads from businesses. She has to get her yearbook photo in by December 21; she doesnāt like her senior pics but she needs to find just one that she can tolerate.
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Congrats yāall, on Santa Clara and the UBC programs and the Binghamton scholarship! Love reading everyoneās good news. 
D26 had her last Christmas concert yesterday with symphonic band, and she played with jazz band during the transitions between 5th, 6th and 7th/8th grade bands. She was hoping to be proficient enough to do her solo in Isnāt She Lovely with jazz band on soprano sax, but she didnāt quite get there so just played it on clarinet. And the clarinet 1 part on Sleigh Ride is always so fast and fun. Wish I could share a clip here. District honor band auditions are happening this Saturday, fingers crossed. (Even if she gets in, she canāt participate because itās the weekend of the winter musical ā but itās more about challenging herself to get in.)
All these ālastsā are kinda getting to me. Kid started playing clarinet in 5th grade, so itās funny to watch those parents now videoing every minute of their little kids squeaking on stage through āpep band medleyā and playing percussion on Home Depot buckets. We did the same. 
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Awww ā¦ Iām sure she did a fabulous job! And I know how you feel. My D26 had her final holiday choir concert on Tuesday. She performed a gorgeous soprano solo in the final song of the concert.
All three of my kids have participated in the music program at our high school (D26 is my youngest), so this was also the last holiday music concert ā the first one was in December 2016! End of an era indeed!
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I am so annoyed at C26ās choir teacher. C26 has been sick for about a week and missed a concert last week which accounted for an important part of the final for both chamber singers and musical theater. Teacher said make up by video of them singing all the songs they would have been part of in the concert. Fair enough, except a week later their voice is still not back properly (you can hear this talking never mind trying to sing) and the deadline for video is tomorrow. C asked if there is another assignment or, could they be sure they will not be penalized by how their voice sounds as it is beyond their control at the moment. Teacher only said well, he can mark the classes incomplete and make up the grades in the spring. Knowing that C26 is a senior and 1st semester grades need to go to some colleges. I am furious. So of course they will try do the video but itās clearly not going to be good work.
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That is absurd. Arghgh I am furious on your behalf. And any choir teacher knows that itās really not healthy to force your vocal folds to do anything while sick. 
Ugh, I hope D26 is able to reason with him and find another solution.
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Frankly, that is bull poop. Iād be making a stink about it.
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I am actually wondering if this is something for a parent to get involved in but Iām concerned he just doubles down. Finals are next week and tomorrow is last day for anything to be submitted (across all classes). Running out of time.
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My D22 ā also a soprano ā is my chorus kid, so I get it! Sheās in her final year of college and has luckily been able to sing with Chorale every semester.
They just sang The Road Home for their holiday concert, which I havenāt watched yet. I know I will boo-hoo because she sang that for baccalaureate in high school, when she loved doing the descant. She wasnāt brave enough to ask for that part in college, though. 
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Colby just announced on their social media that they are releasing ED results today! I am a ball of nerves.
D26 is cool as a cucumber, at least on the outside. She is not an open book so itās hard to know whatās going on inside. But she did tell me that she just never wants high school to end. She is having the best year ever and wants to make high school last forever. I told her there are ways to do that but itās probably not advisable. 
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Fingers crossed for your D26! Sending acceptance vibes her way.
My daughter is definitely over HS. Sheās making the most of her senior year and having a lot of fun, but sheās ready to move on nonetheless.
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Just maybe a devilās advocate opinion, but if your C26 took the incomplete, you could actually send notes to colleges explaining the situation about illness. It could make other years of choir grades look even better/more rigorous?
Itā was an idea because it got me thinking about my D26ās required religion class every year. It is very much NOT rigorous and itās a super easy A. I think every college that sees her transcript probably discounts it immediately especially since sheās not explicitly talking about the class anywhere in her application and itās just straight Aās for all four years. BUT, if there was a way to indicate rigor, maybe it would have helped?
Again, Iām full of bad ideas, so feel free to ignore. And I do agree that this situation SUCKS!
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Iād be furious about this. Iām not one to talk to the teachers/school about this sort of thing and have let my kids advocate for themselves 99.9% of the time. Iāve gone to the teacher once during my daughterās high school career and it was because her PE teacher was going to give her a zero for missing a class while she was out competing at the Cheerleading Worlds (like dude, sheāll be doing more exercising while sheās gone than she would be playing badminton in gym class, we can send you a video). But if I was in the situation you are with C26, I might have to insert myself.
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I worry that they wonāt read the notes. They are on track for As in most of their core classes (AP macro is on the borderline but it sounds like almost no one in that class has an A at the moment) but I am concerned that someone doesnāt read the notes and thinks āsenioritisā. Although these are electives it looks like most of the colleges view music as a ācreativeā elective which is important for architecture. I just think this is a risky gamble at this stage 
Edit: I also donāt know if incomplete will make them ineligible for CSF this semester. They need one semester senior year to get the lifetime CSF award and if itās not this one they wonāt get the stole or get the seal on their high school diploma. I know this is not the most important consideration, but for a kid who started high school with a C average in freshman year itās important to them for self-validation.
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Totally fair. Really sorry youāre having to go through this.
Have yāall checked to see when midyear reports/grades are sent. Our school does not send those out until mid-January. So, if coordinated well- the incomplete may work just fine? Could have that resolved before that goes out?
Sorry that they have thrown this extra stress at your C during this stage of the college admissions process!
Mine is ready to be done as well!
I donāt have last āchoir concertsā or āband concertsā with this one. But I went on what is likely my last āscientific conferenceā as a chaperone trip! 
She won an award for her poster - so it was a successful trip! It was also lovely to spend so much time with D26 - not sure when Iāll get to do that again.
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They send them out usually first week of the spring semester. I donāt trust this teacher to have graded and updated by then. But that might be something to ask/check, thanks for the idea.
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