<p>Hcos12893 - what are you smoking? They are not the best LAX team in the nation. This year or last year.</p>
<p>Iâm just a student, and itâs totally possible that I may be misrepresenting the specifics of scheduling. But if Iâm understanding your problem correctly, the way the history/humanities/science works for freshman is the following. </p>
<p>All students are required to take five periods a day of class. There are seven periods in the regular class day, so each student usually has two frees. Letâs assume this is the case with your daughter. </p>
<p>You have to take both a history and science in your underclassmen years (fresh-soph). The question is when you want to take them, and thatâs when the options come in. You can also take certain philosophy/art classes, providing further choices.</p>
<p>While History and Science are both year-long courses (3 out of the 3 terms), philosophy and art tend to be 1-2 terms. </p>
<p>This allows you to combine them, filling one of your five period slots for the year. An example would be first taking Visual Design (an art, 2 terms) for the Fall and Winter terms, and then taking Judeo-Christian Tradition (a philosophy class, 1 term) in the Spring Term. The four-year student requirements to graduate for art is two terms, and philosophy is only one term, so this would also conveniently knock out those requirements.</p>
<p>So, anyway, the following are the three basic paths which one could take as a Freshman;</p>
<p>1) You can take a science and a history, putting off the philosophy/art until later years.</p>
<p>2) You can take a science and a philosophy/art, putting off the underclassmen history requirement until sophomore year. </p>
<p>3) You can take a history and a philosophy/art, putting off the underclassmen science requirement until sophomore year. </p>
<p>Each of the options is concerning only two periods of your daughterâs five period schedule. The three other classes are set, unless youâre an international student who doesnât need a foreign language or subject to some special exemption (which you would already know about or being working on), and those are your foreign language, English, and your math. </p>
<p>I know this post might be a bit confusing but the scheduling process is one of those things that seems daunting but in retrospect is pretty simple. The important customization aspects of your schedule really come entering Junior and Senior year. So when it comes to a freshman, one should not get too stressed over the choices. The point is, youâll have taken a science and history (and probably a philosophy/art) by the end of your Sophomore year, itâs just which you want to do freshman year and which sophomore year that all of this is about.</p>
<p>Even if you donât understand any of it going into the school year, the academic advisor will walk a parent and student through the process when they first meet to iron out any problems. In the first month or so of school plenty of kids bounce from class to class to figure out their schedule. </p>
<p>But I hope this cleared up some things for you.</p>
<p>this year, fine i misspoke they are definitely the one of the best teams in the nation and the best in NE.</p>
<p>Hcos12893 = Salisbury Lacrosse beat the Green Machine for a SHARED NE LAX Title last year and will possibly beat them again this year. I donât see Deerfield LAX playing anyone like Boys Latin ( [Boys</a>â Latin Lakers, Maryland High School Boysâ Lacrosse 2010 | LaxPower](<a href=âhttp://www.laxpower.com/update10/binboy/XBLTMD.PHP]Boysâ>http://www.laxpower.com/update10/binboy/XBLTMD.PHP) ) of Maryland on their schedule.
The rankings this point of the season are bogus as is your bravado.</p>
<p>Sarumâs right, we lost to Salisbury last year and shared the NE title with them. I donât know much about lax rankings but itâs my understanding that theyâre complicated, considering the fact that teams from different regions donât often play each other, and so itâs hard to establish a region-spanning ranking system. I donât think if there was an accurate system weâd rank #1 in the nation this year, or in the past years. </p>
<p>Moving on, Sarum, just as the starter of this thread, try to keep the personal stuff (ââŠis bogus, as is your bravadoâ) out of here. Thanks for your points though.</p>
<p>âHail fellow well metâ</p>
<p>How Can you access the french and spanish placement? I donât know the password. What are some books some of u are going to read?</p>
<p>hey lindha, if you donât mind me asking, why did you decide on Deerfield over the other schools you were accepted to?</p>
<p>Yes I decided going to DA!!</p>
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<p>What made you choose Deerfield over Exeter?</p>
<p>did i say last year, no i said THIS YEAR. you can think whatever you want it is all debatable anyway so whatever, iâm going with IL over you though</p>
<p>haha, i remember this school.
my dad tried to ship me off to Deerfield in 8th grade⊠</p>
<p>I sort of wish I had jumped at the chance, buut i just couldnât leave the safe haven of my small town and friends =P</p>
<p>seems like an incredible school though =))</p>
<p>2010Hopeful all I can say is that exeter was not the school for meâŠI just didnt see myself there.</p>
<p>A little FYIâtune into DAnet and check out the summer reading list.</p>
<p>Great books, my d is starting to read already.</p>
<p>lindaha: Start here [Language</a> Placement](<a href=âhttp://danet.deerfield.edu/organizations/index.cfm?action=org&ID=89&spot=5&folder=3558&display=3674]Languageâ>http://danet.deerfield.edu/organizations/index.cfm?action=org&ID=89&spot=5&folder=3558&display=3674)
Username: guest & Password: guest</p>
<p>Please note that you need to login with your DA email (usually first initial last name @deerfield.edu) and create a new password before starting the test. Complete instructions are in the link above.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>The new [The</a> Scroll|Deerfield AcademyÂs Newspaper](<a href=âhttp://scroll.deerfield.edu/]Theâ>http://scroll.deerfield.edu/) is up. Check out [A</a> Perfect Storm in Admissions](<a href=âhttp://scroll.deerfield.edu/?p=3352]Aâ>http://scroll.deerfield.edu/?p=3352). The acceptance rate this year was 14.3%. Perhaps more ominous is the âmandateâ to reduce the size of the school from the current 650 students to closer to 600. Obviously, admission will become even more difficult in the years ahead.</p>
<p>Quote from The Scroll:
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<p>The Scroll doesnât seem to be a free press!</p>
<p>@Pulsar: The school administration has control over what goes into the Scroll because it funds its entire production, from start to finish. You seem to misunderstand the concept of free press. If the financial backers of the NYTimes didnât want something printed, it wouldnât be.</p>
<p>TheGreenMachine/Pulsar</p>
<p>I didnât read the editorial in quite the same light (I encourage people to read the whole post, not just the one paragraph that pulsar lifted). The editorial seemed to be a welcoming message by the new staff and talked about how they were wrestling with new roles on the newspaper. I feel certain that the administration was not censoring the paper but rather, the student editors were having good discussions about what material would be in âgood tasteâ and appropriate and what may be considered slander or simply creating a ruckus for the sake of making a ruckus. Almost no school paper is censored by a schoolâs administration (this is true at every school I have been involved with) BUT the students are responsible for the accuracy/appropriateness of the content and they know it. The spirit of the editorial is lost by only reading Pulsarâs post.</p>
<p>@hola3: I suggest you may want to read it again. Some people get it when they read once, some twice, some never! Spin doctors are entitled to their views, lol. 
Coverage of issues including a tragedy involving an alumnus, a difficult situation within our own school, and a letter to the editor opposing one of DeerfieldÂs benefactors are not INAPPROPRIATE issues in my world. If you donât want to talk about a difficult situation in your school such as hazing, you will never be able to fix it. These are the schools that are supposed to teach the kids about freedom, democracy, and debating opponentâs views. Imagine if Washington Post/Woodward didnât report the Watergate scandal! Some people in non-democratic countries may find this censorship appropriate.</p>