D20 and I are nervous wrecks right now. She’s full time DE and it was just announced that there will be no more face to face instruction - only online classes. She is taking physics w/lab - how can she do the lab? She’s also doing independent study with a professor for Discrete Math and we thought that would be safe since she’s in a class of one, but the professor contacted her tonight and said they need to talk tomorrow morning. She has a midterm in the class tomorrow afternoon - I hope she can still take it. 
I don’t know what is going to happen to the rest of her semester!
My D has mentioned wondering if prom or even graduation will be canceled. Just today her school district announced cancellation of all events through April 20. She’ more concerned that her school dance performance will be cancelled than worried about prom or even graduation - the dance performance is the more important thing to her! It’s not til May 14 so fingers crossed.
Ugh, prom – you are right. D20’s is May 3. What a bummer if that happens.
D20 just got a crappy part in the spring musical. She’s disappointed, given her huge commitment to the program. Same thing happened to D19 last year, and she just quit immediately. Not worth her time. D20 says she won’t quit because (a) she’s committed, and (b) her friends are all in it. She’s just not excited about her part at all.
The theater director routinely chooses shows that don’t have enough female roles, and too many male roles, relative to the talent available. So senior girls are often disappointed.
We figure it will be cancelled anyway, so really doesn’t matter.
Aw sorry to hear that @momzilla2D, that’s a disappointing way to end her time with the program. My DD isn’t in the shows, but when her school did Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat she mentioned a lot of girls were upset due to way more male roles.
What I have seen in 4 years of musicals at our schools is productions that are at best 50/50 on parts. Typically kids trying out is 90/10 girls. The last couple of years they had to recruit boys. This is a school with 2100 students. So there is always girls not happy. I’m not sure the solution is in what musical is selected. What causes the most problems at ours is choir kids get the main roles. With the boys that’s fine but with the girls not so much. Not all voices fit roles selected and not all choir people can act. Some acting is still needed. Ironically last years lead girl was not in choir and she was the best lead
@Cole2020 This is a smaller school, ~400 kids in the HS. D20 can’t complain too much because she has gotten some great opportunities. Her junior year she had leads in 3 shows. This year she directed the fall play, and wrote and directed a smaller winter show. It’s just disappointing to finish off her HS theater career with a bit part.
I do think Choir has something to do with it at our HS, since the choir director is involved in casting. Neither D19 or D20 participated in choir. But OTOH, they both did have singing leads in multiple shows in HS. And there’s another senior girl this year, who participated in choir for 4 years, is a strong singer and actor, and still didn’t get a part.
The girl/boy ratio of talent is similar, 90/10. The theater director and choir director are both males, and tend to choose shows that are male-centric. At best 50/50 ratio for lead roles. And every year, they have to recruit boys, and half the girls are disappointed. And for some reason, it’s the senior girls who are cut out every year.
At our HS, the spring play was scheduled to open last week and has been postponed, but could conflict with state music competitions at later dates. I’m hoping we won’t have to worry about prom being canceled – ours is in June – but most extracurriculars are being postponed or canceled.
I can’t help feeling disappointed that D20 won’t get the chance to go to admitted student events. She applied to mostly reach schools, so we are still waiting for most of her results, and there are at least 2 schools that she would want to tour if admitted before she decides plus one that offered merit scholarship that put it higher on her list. With many schools canceling events and sending their students home, it’s not looking good for campus visits before May 1. (I know, first world problems but still, just unfortunate.)
My S20 was supposed to have regional orchestra this week (tomorrow through Saturday). Canceled. The host HS closed yesterday because a student had seen a Dr who had tested positive. My hope is that the regional orchestra was canceled because of the school issue. Regional band in two weeks. Hopefully that doesn’t get canceled too. Not to mention states (assuming they figure out auditioning).
District Band and Choir contest for my girls this weekend has been canceled. What a bummer.
D20 just informed me that their Senior grad trip is cancelled and prom is likely going to be cancelled as well. Arghh…
All of the cancellations are a real bummer. No word on any in our area yet.
My D20’s prom is held at the local university that just went online and cancelled all gatherings greater than 50 people. I suppose they can have alternating shifts for prom.
All the large universities within 200 miles of us have shut down for online learning or will be soon (spring break happening). I have a feeling our area K-12 schools will be soon as well.
Anyone else rethinking the premium price of OOS or private schools, if this thing continues into the fall and classes are online? I mean, a big part of the experience is on the campus — the professors, the fellow students, the sports, the facilities.
@momzilla2D I will admit I am quite glad my S20 has decided to do 2 years at our local cc while living at home. If he has to start online in August, it’s no big deal really since cc is free here in California.
As of today, our Prom on 3/28 and Ball on 4/18 are still planned to go ahead as well as grad night trip to Disneyland, but that could all change any day it seems.
D is more concerned with Grad Bash (Universal Studios) and prom than graduation. We have procrastinated on buying a dress, so we may wait a little longer.
@momzilla, we are far from full pay, but I can’t imagine paying 70K+ a year and then having the experience turn into hastily patched together online courses. It’s not that I think it’s the wrong decision - I just feel for the impacted students.
The college seniors might have it the worst though, as I imagine this will be a lousy time to search for jobs.
@momzilla2D Definitely thinking about D’s in-state option a little more seriously than we were a few weeks ago! The costs will be minimal for us either way, but I do admit I have a teensy bit more anxiety about the logistics of sending her OOS than I did before. We will just take it one step at a time as we monitor these events before the final decision day on May 1.
Well, our S didn’t apply to any in-state options. They’re all a flight or two away. We didn’t see this coming, not surprisingly. Hopefully this will run its course quickly and we can pick up the pieces and get back to some semblance of normal.
Responding to a couple of things on prior pages.
When California renewed its commitment to ensuring the affordability of attending the UCs for those students admitted, namely by expanding the formula
for being eligible to receive a grant for maintaining great grades, as well as by reconfiguring the model for determining what a family could be asked to pay, we hoped it would be great news for us. Nope. We, too, found every single out of state option more doable. From that '14 experience, we learned and never looked back.
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I have a college senior for whom the move to online-instruction has resulted in this near-end-of-college period lending to her voice a thin, deflated quality. I feel very deeply for her, and, yes, most certainly for the impact the c-virus is going to have on job prospects for this group of young people.
I wanted to say to @cshell2 : I feel you. My '20 son is the proud and happy recipient of every college and college-program t-shirt his siblings have ever brought home. He is veritable walking billboard for the colleges of this nation.
At one of his own summer college programs, when he finally wore a plain colored T, one of the professors noticed and asked if the prior day’s showing meant son had ‘finally’ reached the end of the line. (I imagine they both smiled at this.)