<p>Hi everyone! I can’t believe I missed this thread. I have a S 2011/2015 who is now a freshman in college. This site was a Godsend. I also have a D 2015/2019, so here I am again. I look forward to the next four years with you all. :)</p>
<p>I am happy to lend my frying pan to anyone who needs it. :)</p>
<p>Hi to all,</p>
<p>I am new to the site and a parent of a 2015 daughter. She is my eldest, so we are new to the high school and college prep experience. Relying on my own experience seems pretty irrelevant given 25 years, so this site is a help. D is very driven. She attends a magnet HS for very high achieving students. Her fall freshman course load includes gifted English, gifted Geometry, honors Biology, French III and AP Human Geography. She lucked into all the hard teachers, including a Biology teacher who reportedly did not award one “A” all of last year. Despite this she has all A’s per her recent progress report. Hoping she can maintain it through the end of the semester. I think she will. She also played JV volleyball and made the varsity soccer team as a goalie, even starting the first few games. At the moment I am curious to see how she will do on the PSAT, which she took last month. She was a Duke TIPS grand award winner so hoping she continues to do well in that regard. Here’s to the next four years!</p>
<p>@Pepper, will you send it through CC? I do need one! :D</p>
<p>@vistajay and Rice, Welcome!</p>
<p>I think it’s hard for those of us with older kids to get too excited about this thread, even though our freshman are certainly having new and different experiences.</p>
<p>Thanksgiving break was interesting, with little sister having much more work than big sister, but accomplishing much, much more since big sister was supposed to work on application essays but didn’t. Of course, we had a rather constrained weekend, since we were traveling. Right now, D’15 is MUCH more productive than D’12. I’m hoping to turn that around next weekend. They are at two different high schools with very different schedules. D’12 has finals in December, D’15 in January. I’m hoping for a relaxing winter break for D’15, and a productive one for D’12 (who has to fish or cut bait sooner or later). Now we just have to hold on for another 4 weeks.</p>
<p>Waving at IJustDrive!</p>
<p>I have D’12 too. But I wouldn’t say I’m not excited about this thread. I love hearing about everyone’s path through HS. I just don’t have much to post at this point, because my D’15 is just plugging away: wake up, go to school, come home, eat snack/dinner, rush to get HW done around dance/girlscouts/music, dwaddle at bedtime. Lather, rinse, repeat. :)</p>
<p>Welcome to Rice1961 and VBCMom and other new posters!</p>
<p>Welcome to all the new posters!</p>
<p>Glad to hear English class work out for welsh’s D and update on gibson’s D2.</p>
<p>S2 is still frustrated with his geometry. Gets C on tests and grade average is low B. I am OK with it but he is not. It is hard for me to watch him getting so distressed. I found a private tutor who gives one to one sessions as well as group lessons. I let him try both options and he likes the group lessons. We’ll see how it will work out for him.</p>
<p>Good morning. I figured I would stop in. Reading throught the board and so jealous that your children are sharing their academic (and social) issues. My S has always been so quiet and reluctant to share (complete opposite of older sister). We just got his report card last week and were really pleased with the results. All A’s except a C in English. Comments are wonderful except for English. It is almost like there are two different children being graded. In all cases S “sets a positive example”, in English S doesnt participate or hand in work. </p>
<p>I have an appt with the teacher this afternoon to get to the bottom of this. I know that it is not his best subject. I also know that he thinks she is a “horrible” teacher. She is new to our program and was one of the few teachers that did not go through our public honors HS rigorous screening process (transferred from other HS after teacher layoffs). I met with her at the beginning of the year and suspected she would not have an easy time adapting to the expectations. I have been confused myself about her cirruculum but that may be due to the fact that my S is confused. I am trying to keep an open mind. I am most concerned about the comments since it doesn’t match what is happening in all other courses (and past history).</p>
<p>herandhis I make house calls with my frying pan! :)</p>
<p>Last year at this time my oldest was being an absolute pill about the application process. I am so happy he is off at his school, loving it, and done! My sympathies to anyone who has a student applicant like him-procrastinator of the highest order.</p>
<p>nellieh sure sounds like at least part of the issue is his teacher.</p>
<p>sunny geometry seems to be tough for lots of kids-a tutor is a great idea.</p>
<p>Hi all! I also have an S12 as well as D15, so application season has been, um, a pain in the heinie but at least we are done until we hear from Stanford SCEA. If S doesn’t get in (which is likely since it is such a lottery) we will scramble to add more private apps to his UC apps, which he submitted last week. He also has mono and has been really struggling to keep up with his classwork. I feel so sorry for him, he has always been so academically driven, so he drags himself to school when he needs to be there and sleeps as much as he can. Does anyone know when he will start feeling better? It has been three weeks…
D15, on the other hand, is not as academically driven or responsible, she would probably ask to take the semester off if she caught it from him!<br>
She is a smart kid but homework is an issue in some of her classes (the two she doesn’t like–Biology and Geometry). Why oh why would you do homework and forget to turn it in? She would have straight As if she could master that one issue, instead she has two low Bs in those classes–it kills me. I’ve tried bribery, threats, grounding…nothing works. She’ll be on the ball for several weeks and then drop the ball for a few days and down the grade goes. By the time they are entered in our Parent Viewer, it is too late to make the homework up. Maybe a frying pan is in her future? JK, it is the two year old (D26!) who will likely make me reconsider my strong aversion to spanking, I’d forgotten (or blocked) how challenging two year olds can be.</p>
<p>I can’t imagine having a 2 y.o. right now. And a senior with mono? How do you manage?</p>
<p>Hi all! I am new to this board. Came here because stepson (SS12 in the parlance here?) is a senior applying to college, and I found this place. It’s rather overwhelming, but also a good resource and it has me nervous about my D15. She’s a really bright kid, getting great grades and does very well on standardized tests, but I have a bunch of worries, like not pushing her to take leadership positions in EC’s, not knowing about summer programs she should take, etc. etc. I’m trying to take things slow though. Anyway, just wanted to say hi.</p>
<p>My S15 is really enjoying his year so far, very good grades on first report card, seems to be doing fine in all his classes. He did mentioned the 3rd freshman of the year is dropping out of his advanced Algebra II class so I expect some are struggling. He’s also started the winter training with the crew team and is really enjoying it so far which is a lot of fun for me to watch since my oldest (D10) and I are both former rowers and while we always hoped he’d try we never thought he would. He has been exhausted after practices though but already said he knows he’ll use Tuesdays to do the bulk of his work since they don’t practice then so he’s already thinking time management on his own which I’m happy with.</p>
<p>Welcome to all the new joiners to the thread 
I don’t often poke my head in here yet since I have a D13 I need to be thinking college with but I try and keep up with reading :)</p>
<p>Wow! Lots of us with 15’ers and 12’ers!</p>
<p>It’ll be interesting to see how our younger kids adjust to the older ones going away to college next fall. I think my D’15 will miss her sister terribly. OTOH, my across-the-street neighbor’s S’15 and S’19 were thrilled when their big sister (D’10) moved out for college, because they commandeered her bedroom and didn’t have to share anymore. :)</p>
<p>and I think lots more 11’ers !</p>
<p>D2 missed her big sis when she left for college this fall- we all did. The girls had become very good friends over the past year or so. Big change to her being the " only" child. This time last year was very stressful and I am glad I am sitting on the otherside with D1 launched and happy. For those with '12 children, I promise you will get through this time and your student will be happy where they land. Pop over and read the college class of 2015 thread and hear how well nearly all the kids ( and parents) are doing!</p>
<p>I learned some much with D1 and D2 will reap the benefit of that knowledge. One thing, I know for sure is she will not be applying to 10 schools, way too much stress, and she can only attend one college : )</p>
<p>Good morning. I did meet with my son’s teacher and determined that there are two things happening: </p>
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<li> This teacher was pretty disorganized due to big changes in the district her having to adjust to a 9th honors english class vs a low performing 8th grade english. There are a couple assignments that she says he did not hand in but he swears he did and I did see him do them. She also is not giving out assignements readily. She is looking through her items to find the assigmnents and S is doing the same.</li>
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<p>The second issue is S’s executive function/adhd issues are impacting him in the class. He is loosing classroom participation grades because he simply is not picking up on the literary devices. (Mom-water is water- how can it mean----?) This is going to be a bigger problem for us to get through. Teacher has agreed to work with him 1/1 during a shared free period. I am also searching for a tutor that we can use after school.</p>
<p>My youngest is in this cohort; let’s enjoy the ride. I can guarantee it will be too short.</p>
<p>Thanks for the welcome to the board! I am going to have to come back here for advice when D gets her first serious boyfriend, as I suspect that will be the main challenge to her maintaining her grades! :)</p>
<p>^^^Yes indeed. Enjoy the time while your HS kids are still at home (although I know it can be unpleasant and stressful at times). Once they are in college they only come home for visits. My S15 is the chatty one and I don’t want to think of the day he is leaving.</p>
<p>I found CC because my S is a senior in HS and doing the college app stuff now. I enjoy the 2012 parents thread so I thought I’d see if there was a 2015 thread and sure enough, there is :)</p>
<p>My D is 14. Plays lacrosse and volleyball, violin, is an A student. Not too interested in talking about college yet, has declined to accompany her brother and I on his college visits so far, but I suspect she’ll get more interested when he goes.</p>
<p>Hi everyone!</p>