All A's in MS - what gift?
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Anonymous
| My DS got all A's in middle school. We should probably do something for his achievement. Any ideas? |
Anonymous
| My rising 6th grader got all As in 5th grade. We got her a phone for her birthday ( summer bday) |
Anonymous
| My kids got all A's and we didn't give them anything. It's also an option to say good job and move on. |
Anonymous
| The gift is the grades, OP. That's the gift. |
Anonymous
| I think it’s great to reward your kids for having a great year but I would reconsider tying it explicitly to A’s. I saw so many of my peers struggle to live up to parental expectations even when they were tying their hardest. A lot of things may hinge on their grades but those things don’t need to include your approval. |
Anonymous
+1 But, I think it depends on the kid. If the kid has struggles and worked really hard, it might be a celebratory event. But, I would not go all out and buy something expensive. My kids don't have any SN, and they come from an UMC family, so getting straight As in MCPS is not a *huge* deal for my kids. My just graduated senior got straight As in HS, too. We didn't give them anything for that, either. They are pretty self motivated for the straight As. The younger one didn't get straight As this past year, and that's ok, too, but we do expect them to try the best they can. |
Anonymous
| The gift is the grades. Period. |
Anonymous
Agree. At some point, the motivation needs to be internal. |
Anonymous
They go to school and succeed for themselves not for you. |
Anonymous
| All As isn’t anything unusual in public school these days. It means they met the standard. |
Anonymous
| What exactly are you celebrating? |
Anonymous
Do you have a kid who has gone through middle school yet? If they took a bunch of high school classes and got all As throughout the, no, it’s not “standard”. |
Anonymous
DP here (I said the grades are the gift, early on in this thread) but yes, my DD took Honors math classes in 7th & 8th, she took Honors French and Honors Chinese. She left Pyle as a straight A student. She is now in 11th grade and ranks #1 in her HS because of this work she did and the accumulative WGPA it has given her. For what it's worth, she was run of the mill at Whitman with friends out-doing her in AP classes. We have since moved and that is why she is now ranked #1 in her HS. So leaving Pyle with all A's is very much the "norm" |
Anonymous
| Take them to a local bookstore and buy a book for them and a book for their middle school library and donate it. |
Anonymous
A New Car! 
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