It seems we have a lot parents of robotics kids on here. Mine likes it too!
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Similar to others here I am working with my 26 kid but trying to get a better jumpstart for my S28! I’m hoping this will be helpful!
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Hi. Just found this thread. Im a S25 mom and also an S28 mom. My 25 grad will be attending University of Richmond.
My 28 is attending our County Vo-Tech high school and is in the Diesel Tech program. He has plans to go right into the work-force after high school. School has never been his thing, so him getting accepted into our highly sought after tech school was so amazing.
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How did everyone do for their 1st semester? We don’t have final grades yet but looks like S28 will have all A’s or A-'s except English. I was hoping he’d squeak out a B but looks like it might end up being a B-. UGH He just isn’t clicking with this teacher. He’s asked for help several times and just isn’t getting it. Also, everything is in class so I can’t help him at home at all really.
Hopefully next semester is better in that regard. He’s done with 2 classes and switches into 2 different ones next week.
That’s wonderful! That’s a great career, glad he found something he likes!
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Our semester isn’t done yet, but mine was doing well when we had a parent teacher conference at the end of the quarter.
My S26 attends a school where all the grades are in a parent portal, and he’s a kid who shows me his graded work, and asks my thought. My S28 attends a school where they don’t have a parent portal because they want to foster independence (or something like that), and he talks about school about as much as CIA agents talk about their jobs. Luckily, he’s the stronger student of the two and usually ends up with good grades.
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We have the parent portal also. At PT conference time he was still at an A. Then he had a couple of assignments that were lower so he talked to the teacher. Talked to him a few more times and he didn’t really help him. It is what it is and next week he gets to start over. Hopefully it will be his only B- (looks like that’s what it will be) ever.
Just to be clear, I didn’t mean that to imply that any of those prevent B’s. They haven’t for my kid. They just prevent me from being totally surprised by B’s. My secret agent kid could have an F or 6 F’s for all I know. Or maybe the school would have reached out in that circumstance.
But I was mainly agreeing with the “every school and kid is different” thought that was somewhere on the thread.
Ok I just realized that maybe the “all schools are different” discussion was in the class of 26 thread which I was also reading. So my last comment makes no sense to anyone reading here!
lol about your secret agent kid. My S28 is a bit like that with homework. I think part of the issue with his English class is that the teacher would tell them in class that they had until 3pm that day to finish something up so he just wouldn’t do it if it was past 3pm. I had NO idea until 2 days ago that that was why his grade was so low. If I had known I would have told him to work on it anyway and hand it in after school since he has no study halls. That isn’t fair of the teacher to do that when a kid has no way to complete it after the class by 3pm.
I don’t know why the B- bothers me so much. I would be totally fine if he had a plain old B.
What are people planning for the summer? My kid plans to work about half the summer for his uncle’s landscaping business (does this make him a nepo baby?), do his sport, go to a couple weeks of robotics camp, and go to the beach for a week.
He might get dragged along on some college tours for his brother. He is so funny, every college he announces he is going there and comes up with some reason. For example he wants to go to our flagship so he can visit the sheep in the agricultural department’s farm.
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My kid struggles with the exact same literalism. He follows all the rules, even ones that only exist in his head.
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I think a concern of mine is that he sill has not only another semester with this teacher but another entire year. This teacher teaches both freshmen and sophomore regular level English. I think I’m going to have to talk to the principal about our options.
Getting my DS28 to even talk about summer options is like talking with a CIA agent. Trying to be casual and not stress him out, just innocently raising the Q every now and then. But he’s quite oblivious to all of it.
He is a theatre kid and could volunteer/counselor in training at local theatre camps. But he’d have to, you know, actually reach out and apply. Sigh. He’ll figure it out!
That’s lousy. I hope you find a solution. Is the school tiny? To have just one teacher for two whole grades it must be.
There are about 300 students in the high school. There are 5 English teachers total for all the grades/classes.
Thought I’d drop in to join the thread and introduce myself. This is our second time through college admissions. S24 is enjoying freshman year at an LAC so that’s one happy ending!
S28 is has completely different interests and personality, so we’ll be exploring a very different set of colleges with STEM focus.
S attends the LPS in our small town in a rural area. No honors classes, a few AP and maybe half the graduating class will go to a 2 or 4-year college, mostly directional public U campuses. There is very little local guidance or support for the college process and I feel like CC has been such a valuable resource for us!
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Report cards from 1st semester are out. S28 got 5 A’s, 1 A-, and squeaked out a B in that English class.
Found out today that the school is adding Ap Human Geo starting next year. I would rather have them add another AP science but whatever.
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I will join in the thread. I have freshmen twins. Is that DD28 lol? This will be my 3rd time going through high school and eventually the college process. D21 and D23 both are at Illinois University in Urbana. This time it will be very different for us as we navigating the process of recruiting for one of my D28. The other D28 is very strong academically and musically. She does play sport at school as they go to a small private school that requires 2 sports all 3 years and 1 sport in their senior year. Also our school requires to complete community service hours every year. With such busy schedule of homework, sport traning and 3 different music lessons, where to find that time and places to complete those service hours?! The best of luck to everyone kiddos with their 2nd semester!
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Our school ( I think the state requires it) requires service hours also. We get them done over the summer. So S28 did his 10 hours (was more like 20) helping out with vacation Bible school last June. He will do the same this coming summer.
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