<p><i>Maybe it’s time for some of the under-18 set to go back to the student boards and leave us parents to kvetch about senioritis?? I do - usually - enjoy reading students who post on the parents board, but some of the posts on this thread are becoming less than mature.</i></p>
<p>A lot of students here-like me- are exactly 18. And the immaturity is ozzing from both sides. How mature is it to make a tenuous argument then throw around caustic phrases like “enjoy your slacker life”. I’m surprised by some of the posts in here, parents should know better than anybody how often social skills trump book smarts in the real world.</p>
<p>I think its up to everyone individually how they want to approach their 2nd semester. Judging someone else’s performance and calling them a slacker just because they are dropping a grade letter to allow some extra time to bond with friends they’ll never see again and create a few memories is pretty unnecessary.</p>
<p>I think it’s time for some of the participants who have not received their high school diplomas, whether they have reached their legal majority or not, to reread the sticky post at the top of the parents forum regarding decorum.</p>
<p>Wouldn’t life be interesting if students didn’t; get admissions decisions until after the complete high school transcript had been reviewed by the admissions committee at the colleges of their choice?</p>
<p>It might also be interesting to send all the college-bound seniors on a spring semester service project or career related internship from January through June … </p>
<p>Actually – the kids in my town are able to do a 1 month ‘internship’ for 30 hrs a week mid-May through mid-June. They aren’t lazing around the atrium courtyard skipping classes!</p>
<p>i just read the post regarding decorum and all it mentions is moderating decisions. not sure how that factors into this discussion at all. maybe you should reread it yourself? </p>
<p>youre right, it would be interesting if students got accepted only after colleges saw the final trascript, but thats not the case, so, again, im not sure how that factors into this discussion.</p>
<p>i agree with you that going on a service project would be amazing. it would be much more interesting than sitting in a classroom that neither the teacher nor the students want to be in. however, there are alot of monetary issues that would probably hinder this project from ever becoming widespread.</p>
<p>“They aren’t lazing around the atrium courtyard skipping classes!”
-neither are any students at my school, myself included.</p>
<p>I am a teacher and see this attitude every year. And, yes, I teach seniors and we work to the bitter end. That is my job and that is their job. Do they get the grades they earn without any grade inflation so the graduate? From me, they do. They know better than to slack in my classes. There is no free ride in life and there is none in my classes and in most of the classes at our school (public, BTW). One of our most respected teachers teaches AP Government and believe me at the end of each year she cries because some of her seniors failed. Yes, failed. They had to go to summer school in order to graduate and they lost their acceptances. I see this so much that it pains me when kids think they know better. And it has been my experience that hte kids who learn because they want to, and love it that succeed so very much more than others. They don’t need rewards - it is their inner fortitude and drive that motivates them. And this will stay with them all their lives.</p>
<p>Academia is a marathon. I studied about 6 hrs a night the week before midterms knowing they would be my very last exams, and everything from there on was downhill. If you won a marathon, would you all out sprint to the medal stand, then jog behind the car the whole way home?</p>