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<p>My son looked through the index of a chem prep book yesterday, and they have covered about 1/3 of the topics.</p>
<p>I don’t know where I belong anymore. :(</p>
<p>My kid won’t be “High School Class of 2011,” and he’s not “High School Class of 2009.” </p>
<p>Where am I to go? What am I to do?</p>
<p>:: makes hot chocolate ::</p>
<p>:: finds a blankie ::</p>
<p>:: curls up on sofa ::</p>
<p>Well, obviously, you have to continue to post here. That’s not even a question. However, I think you get to expand your posting opportunities even more!</p>
<p>Well, Owlice, obviously the Spawn wants to be in a class of his own. </p>
<p>So you get to have your very own vigil, and we will all keep you company, and you can continue to feed us.</p>
<p>Hey, Owlice, you can visit us over on the 2010 thread - we never have any good food there! </p>
<p>Hi Peabodie. :)</p>
<p>Owlice, I just have to say “how lucky can you get?” You get a free pass on all this HS/college crap, for now anyway. I hope you will keep us updated on how your son is doing.</p>
<p>owlice, come on over to the 2009 thread! It’s actually the High School Class of 2009/(College Class of 2013) thread, but the last part is silent. You’ll have to stay here, too, since transferring in two years is a possibility.</p>
<p>Another big milestone in the chintzy house: S got his first summer job! He went to a big job fair at a local attraction and was offered a position on the spot. He did a great job all on his own–wore a collared shirt, made eye contact, shook hands, etc, etc. Of course, now he wonders why the media is making such a big deal about how hard it is to get a job. Now he is negotiating the hours with his manager. He told her up front that he has a big time commitment w/ AAU baseball, so we’ll have to see if it works out.</p>
<p>Congratulations to chintzyboy! That’s a big milestone indeed.</p>
<p>Yay for chintzyboy!! That’s great!</p>
<p>And thanks, all, for letting me know you’re not going to boot me outta here!!</p>
<p>I’ve got moonpies and moonshine for everyone, swiped from the riotous hob nob snob thread; help yourselves!</p>
<p>Good Morning 2011’s! Just checking in to see how everyone is doing. S got his schedule for next year from his GC this week. Due to expected budget cuts, he didn’t get any electives. He’s got enough credits to be on track for graduation, but he’s stuck with a study hall he doesn’t want. Our school has A/B block scheduling, so study hall is 84 minutes long, and according to S, very hard to get any work done.</p>
<p>~~ sigh ~~ My spawn… oh, he’s in deep doo-doo with his dad for getting a C in English. It’s his first C ever. Kid hated the book they were reading the first part of 3rd quarter (what, a 15-year-old boy doesn’t like Pride and Prejudice?? Whyever not?!?! 
). </p>
<p>Spawn is looking forward, very very very much, to the end of school. He’s ready to be done with the place!</p>
<p>I’ve been complaining since S was in 2nd grade that literature choices skew towards girls. I feel sorry for the boys in D’s AP English class who had to read Austen, Bronte, Kate Chopin and a new female African writer without so much as a drop of Hemingway or other testosterone-laden author.</p>
<p>Maybe spawn has senioritis that has been mis-diagnosed because of his location in the Sophomore class.</p>
<p>My D is trying to keep her no C string alive, but this is going to be tough this year , she is just not a Bio person.</p>
<p>I remember my S was doing ok in HS English, right up until Beowulf, and he was never the same after :)</p>
<p>It is a truth universally acknowledged that a teenaged boy in possession of 15 years will despise Pride and Prejudice. :)</p>
<p>chintzy, I think a lot of people are going to be getting not quite the schedule they expect this coming year :(. D1 doesn’t get her schedule until the first day of class. The big thing will be that she gets Beloved Math Teacher rather than Inept Math Teacher. She’s tried to arrange her schedule to not request electives that meet during the one period when BMT teaches Calc. The more worrisome news is that budget cuts will probably mean that her magnet school will lose their college counselor. No one knows yet what to expect. If the kids all get added on to the host school’s GC overload, oy vey. On the other hand, D1 had a free period for next year to fill, and decided to spend it working in the college counseling office. So what initially looked like a gap filler might turn out to be a very wise move. </p>
<p>Anyone planning any tours this summer? D1 leaves for a summer trip out of NYC, so we will take her to a few schools on the east coast when she returns. I’m targeting schools that either track interest or that might be possible safeties/matches (love your safety, love your safety, love your safety). D1 is all stressed over APs and the coming trip, and is just not yet interested in doing the reading and poking around needed to come up with a proto-list. I hate turning into helicopter parent and coming up with some potential candidates, but we’ve got to get started with this or time will run out. If she ends up hating every place we see, that’s fine. She did say it was OK for me to request schools send her literature, but no one sent any snail mail. I’m now somewhat regretting that she didn’t check off the “release info about me” box on the PSAT last October.</p>
<p>S got his schedule and although he got everything he asked for there is no room for electives unless he drops science which he doesn’t want to. They are offering a 1 semester class on WWII next year he would absolutely love to take but has no room in his schedule. </p>
<p>We got S’s 4 qtr progress review Friday and were not pleased. He had 2 D+'s on his review!!! H and I did not talk to him about it til Sunday because he was taking the SAT on Saturday and we did not want to stress him out. It gave us a couple days to calm down. One of which was in Algebra 2 which he loves. I think he can pull it back up to the B+ he has been getting all year in the class. D+ was due to 2 poorly done/missing assingments. The other D+ was due to a tanked chemistry test. Can I say I told you so. He was adament the online info concerning the test was wrong and knew he didn’t have to study that 2nd chapter. Lord. I have the kid who can but doesn’t. </p>
<p>We are taking a 3 week RV trip to IL, MN, OH and WI the last 3 weeks in June once the kids are out of school. If we have time we hope to walk through a few college campuses. Any thoughts on a good school for a kid who will probably score very high on the SAT but with mediocre grades (if we are lucky)?</p>
<p>What, he didn’t love Pride and Prejudice? I just don’t get it, owlice. LOL. Sounds like he is going for the total HS experience, complete with senioritis. </p>
<p>That’s a shame your school is facing such budget cuts, chintzy. Is there a chance he cuold sign on as a teacher’s aide for a teacher who would let him do homework in his or her classroom? I can see where it would be hard to concentrate during study hall.</p>
<p>Here you have to take some electives in certain areas for a graduation requirement. They are a total waste of time in my opinion, but no one asked for it. S got his out of the way during the freshman and sophomore years. His schedule next year is solid academics. Physics, and biology, and pre-calc, oh my! He and a friend are already talking about study groups for next year. I wish the idea would last, but think it will quickly go by the wayside. Unfortunately, he will not be getting the same history teacher his brother had. It is a shame, as that teacher is one of the most gifted I’ve ever seen and the other is evidently mediocre.</p>
<p>Chintzy - I just read Mudbound which S will be reading during vacation. Does have some sex in it, but a really good story about life in the South after WWII from several POV. Perhaps your S would like it.</p>
<p>Thanks, mamom, I’ll check it out. I’m sure he’ll have a summer reading requirement and he is a bit of a history buff, so it sounds like a good fit.</p>
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<p>Son had to read *Wuthering Heights *this year. He is such a reader and he said it was one of only two books ever assigned in school that he didn’t like. (The other was Sophie’s World.)</p>