UHG!We did stuff for honor society..which I had to be dragged to.
UHG!We did stuff for honor society..which I had to be dragged to.
Can I just give money?My dd did a bunch of stuff. Some with her TB team and some due to our HS requirements. Here are some that my dd did:
My dd's community involvement was noted when she applied to various colleges and did, in fact, get her larger financial offers. When she went to college, she got her college coach to get the college players involved in both the food pantry and the holiday meals.
- She worked in a food pantry for both Thanksgiving and Christmas.
- She volunteered time at an animal shelter.
- She served the homeless meals at Thanksgiving and Christmas. (A separate part of the first thing I mentioned.)
- She read to children who had reading problems and helped tutor them. (A part of school requirements for community involvement.) Side note on this one. One of the kids bit her while she was trying to help the young man read. He was a "biter" and no one at the facility told her that.
- She volunteered for softball clinics for families who could not afford to send their children to pay to attend camps.
- She volunteered as a TB coach for her TB program so she was coaching and playing at the same time.
Your priorities are way out of whack. If she’ll be challenged more to succeed from attending the private school that’s the reason to go there. Who cares if her GPA drops a few tenths of a point if she’ll be better prepared to succeed in college.Yes. Mainly softball but because private school has pitching to help take pressure off my DD. We are scared of injury from just pitching every game. She pitched 174 innings and threw 2811 pitches this past season. Just seems like to much for someone.
LOL. DD's says her professors make their classes unnecessarily difficult. I am glad. DD graduated in top 5% in HS, and I still think she is dumbA$$. As I talk to former classmates ('88) we all agree HS was much more difficult than today. Heck they stop teaching stuff at the end of April and coast in the month of May. How about all these final exemptions? I took every single final in every class my entire academic life. I graduated in the second qtr and noone thought I was a dummy.
If you aren't' taking AP classes, you are looked down upon. The counselors automatically put my DD2 in AP classes and I had to fight back as this was not the best route for her. I remember the kids in AP classes were all the smart, nerdy gifted kids. It was the top of the class. How is it that ALL of my adult friends have kids in AP classes?
No lie. No less than 40 Valedictorians every year at two of the HS's across the freeway from DD HS.
What is their motivation? We don’t get promoted/raises for giving out bad grades..However, at every school throughout time, there are profs who can be just flat-out unreasonable in how they handle their classes. It's not hard to spot...classrooms of academically talented students are suddenly staring at Ds and Fs.
You concur h.s. is easier now then when you were a kid and you tried to ensure your daughter did not get the easy route.I do think that just getting through HS is probably easier than when I was a kid. However, I ensured that my kid's experience was more rigorous than mine.
What is their motivation? We don’t get promoted/raises for giving out bad grades..
What is their motivation? We don’t get promoted/raises for giving out bad grades..
Ok I agree with their being a bad instructor but you made it sound like they were purposely flunking kids..You would know better than I. Academia is full of PhDs with strange perspectives and methods...present company excepted, of course.
There are exceptions, and I know a couple personally, but many college profs simply aren't very good teachers. They may be brilliant in their field, but they are so far removed from being an undergrad that they have little understanding or empathy of what it's like to learn something complicated for the first time. As we know, being a great athlete in a particular sport doesn't all guarantee someone will be a good coach. I have an older cousin who is a flat-out brilliant mathematician and physicist. He studied and taught at all the very best schools, but I wouldn't go near him for calculus or general physics. Never married and no kids. He's a nice guy, but his experience as a very young and exceptionally gifted undergrad...a half century ago...was far different than 99%+ of college students.