<p>Yeah, in D's school, lunch is mandatory and at the same time for the entire school (I have no idea how they do that logistically). It is not counted as a period at all. It is on every schedule as LUNCH.</p>
<p>LIMOmom -- I hope you give us some reports on your trip.</p>
<p>Oh dear God -- I just realized you are Long Island Mom and not Limo Mom -- I guess I thought your handle had something to do with schlepping your kids around!</p>
<p>dbwes - lol - a few other people have thought that as well - and they told me I left out letters. It would be a somewhat accurate description of my life these days, except for the limo part.......lol - but you are correct LI stands for Long Island. </p>
<p>And yes, I will be happy to post reports on our trip.</p>
<p>Queen's Mom - I wonder how your D's school does that - do they have a humongous cafeteria? Ours is not that big - but our lunch periods are spread over several periods and many, if not most, kids go out for lunch. </p>
<p>The kids are told they have to schedule a lunch period into their day, but I know some kids who have gone without one. D needs hers because she's at school everyday until 5:30/6:00 for sports, and often later than that. Plus, she doesn't eat breakfast because she gets dropped off for school so early in the morning (a little before 7, although her first class is at 7:25, I think).</p>
<p>Oh, and Queen's Mom - I can't get over that your D's school gives an SAT prep course that counts as a class with a grade - amazing! Our district offers a prep class, but it's after school, and you pay extra for it. Also, it's not a very good one, as we found out this summer. I can't complain about D's score, but I think she achieved that on her own - they gave stupid advice in that class which she ignored. In the math class, she was told if you don't know the answer, choose C. </p>
<p>Archiemom and Queen's Mom - not sure how your kids get that much sleep. I wouldn't say my D spends hours studying most nights, but she often gets home so late, that she can't start her homework until after 9 or 10 at night. She does do some at school during lunch or when she has some downtime, but that doesn't help with stuff that needs to be done on the computer. Your kids are very lucky. Of course doing that extra stuff at school is my D's choice, but it seems like loads of kids are in the same position.</p>
<p>Actually 2 out of 4 days (that's the schedule rotation) he has a free period at 12:45, but the other days he has physics lab. And the teachers are great about allowing kids to eat during class...sometimes by junior/senior year, the classes just aren't offered enough times to give everyone an ideal schedule. Most students do have a free block in the middle of the day (tho for S1 senior year, he ate lunch at 9:30am!). Second semester his gym class will be 2 out of the 4 first periods.</p>
<p>I wish they had a real lunch period, but the cafe can't accomodate all 1400 kids, so they rotate them thru for 4-5 periods in the middle of the day. He'll probably be eating during Precalc. The other choice would be French IV, and I'm guessing that the conversation part of French would make chewing difficult.</p>
<p>As for scheduling time, S2 only has a sport in the spring. And this spring, APs and all the other testing will be a challenge, I admit. The rest of the year, his ECs meet for a short time after school and not everyday. Luckily he breezes through the math assignments and most english stuff and even gets the requisite MMORPG online gaming fun in most days. Homework has not been an issue yet in Fresh & Soph years. And if he's not in bed by 11pm, it's probably because he's on his phone /:( .</p>
<p>Homework hasn't been an issue for my D except for the fact that she gets home so late due to her ECs. She does sports throughout the school year, plus a few of her other ECs are pretty time consuming, and I suspect this year is going to be worse than ever.</p>
<p>D is not in sports and does not have very many ECs in school. She's not that interested. The ones she has meet for half an hour after school maybe once every two weeks. So unless she is in a show (she's in theater) she gets home early. When she is in a show (2X per year), she does almost all her homework during breaks backstage.
She breezes through homework and the only classes she finds difficult are history and government classes (that's why she's taking AP World this year ;)) so everything is pretty much done early so she has time to practice her music as well
I agree that with 2 APs and all the testing, this year will be much more challenging.
D goes to a very large suburban school: over 3K students. Seniors are allowed off campus for lunch and a lot of kids get tutoring during that time so no lunch. The cafeteria does not accommodate everyone, but the kids can eat outside and in hallways (which they do). The cafeteria is huge, but not that huge. I really don't know how they do it.</p>
<p>Queen's Mom - Theater is a big commitment, isn't it? D would like to participate, but can't because of sports. I guess the backstage breaks help with the homework. Nice that your D finds the homework easy. For my D, the bigger issue is that she often needs her computer to do assignments, so those have to be done at home. My D's school doesn't offer AP World, they offer AP Euro which she took last year. For juniors at her school, it's APUSH. I'm not that worried about my D's schedule, although it's a tough one - I'm more concerned about her overextending herself with her ECs. </p>
<p>Your D's school is quite a bit larger than my D's, so I'm even more surprised that they don't stagger the lunches. I've never heard of another school that does it that way - but if it works, no reason to change it, I guess.</p>
<p>D is so excited. She got an email from school today approving her starting a new literary magazine (well maybe more a leaflet) at school. They are hoping to publish monthly.</p>
<p>That's so cool Queen's!!!!</p>
<p>LIMOMOF2, yes theater is a big commitment and this year she is hoping to do some community theater as well as school plays. She is in a "performing arts academy" in school which has its own graduation requirements. This limits her elective choices to pretty much theater and that's all.</p>
<p>The kids take US Hist. in Freshman year, and D was absolutely NOT ready for any APs at the tender age of 13 (I know, how very un CC of us). In fact, she didn't even take honors history that year.</p>
<p>I am worried about everything this year. D has taken on a lot. I hope she can handle it.</p>
<p>I'm another Mom of 2010--sounds like the space age to me. Our school is another where kids don't always get lunch and many of them ask not to have a lunch period so they don't have to deal with the issues like going out, smoking, drinking, etc. They eat lunch in their classroom and that way they can take an extra class that they might enjoy, like a digital media course.</p>
<p>My S is in danger of being over-scheduled because he's a bit unfocused. He does only a few school clubs but takes music lessons, plays on a non-school hockey team, and has been taking art classes on the side. Now it will come down to whether or not he can do both an SAT course and an art course during junior year. Plus driver's ed has to fit in somewhere. He's not a top student so the grades can't fall...he has a lot on his plate this coming year.</p>
<p>Good luck to all of the class of 2010.</p>
<p>Welcome acme! Good luck to your S. It's so hard on the kids this year - the tough class schedules, test prep/tests, and driver's ed - not to mention ECs and friends. You want them to have a life too!</p>
<p>My D may be overscheduled - not so much with her classwork, but with ECs. Don't get me wrong, she's got a tough schedule, but I think she'll find it manageable. The ECs, I'm not sure about. I just can't see her giving any of them up any time soon.</p>
<p>Queen's Mom - I'm sure your D will be fine. The kids take on a lot for themselves, I know. I think they'll have to take it one step at a time, and see how it goes. </p>
<p>Good luck to all!</p>
<p>Queen's mom, that's awesome! You must be so excited to see how your daughter does. Make sure you get extra copies for ehr memory box, though!</p>
<p>Do you guys ever just not want to deal with the college search? I sometimes wish the College Fairy would come with the perfect list and magically send off her applications and I don't have to do anything -- especially don't have to stress and worry and second-guess myself.</p>
<p>I absolutely do not want to deal with the college search. D absolutely does not want to seal with the college search. I second the request for th College Fairy to come bail us out.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>Since he's so expert, the Fairy should be Curmudgeon in a tutu with a wand.</p>
<p>Oh, the visual!!! And his goats deliver the applications to their respective schools (assuming said goats don't eat them...) :D</p>
<p>:D</p>
<p>funny.</p>
<p>Congrats to your D, Queen's Mom. Somehow, I deleted that part of my last post. Sorry about that. </p>
<p>zoosermom - the college fairy is a great idea! </p>
<p>CountingDown - too funny!</p>