Is your high school senior still going to school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Mine is going every day and to all classes. She is still doing work and doing well but her strong motivation has plummeted. After AP tests, I will probably have to push and prod her to stay motivated. She’s always going to go to school and class to see her friends.

This makes me sad. If you enjoy your classes, you keep going. I feel bad that her classes aren’t more engaging.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DD is still going but she says tons of kids are skipping school.

Seriously, why? Has to be the red-shirted kids.

Seek help for your bizarre obsession with redshirted kids. It’s creepy.

np- do you know what obsession means or do you just throw that word around when you don’t like something?

I mean it’s true. Only an obsessive would bring up redshirting in this context the way PP did.

It isn’t true, but you’re perseverating, and the only one sounding “obsessive” here is you. DP.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Mine is going every day and to all classes. She is still doing work and doing well but her strong motivation has plummeted. After AP tests, I will probably have to push and prod her to stay motivated. She’s always going to go to school and class to see her friends.

This makes me sad. If you enjoy your classes, you keep going. I feel bad that her classes aren’t more engaging.

What planet do you live on? Most HS classes are boring.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Mine is going every day and to all classes. She is still doing work and doing well but her strong motivation has plummeted. After AP tests, I will probably have to push and prod her to stay motivated. She’s always going to go to school and class to see her friends.

This makes me sad. If you enjoy your classes, you keep going. I feel bad that her classes aren’t more engaging.

What planet do you live on? Most HS classes are boring.

Both my kids liked their senior classes best because they could finally focus more on what they wanted. This year DD loves her IB environmental science and biology classes, has a great teacher for English, and finally has room for an art elective in addition to band class. Only thing she finds boring is statistics.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DD is still going but she says tons of kids are skipping school.

Seriously, why? Has to be the red-shirted kids.

May be the school.
We moved from a school where AP classes did not have daily homework—maybe 1.5-2 hours of homework per night for all classes put together to a school where my kid spends 3-4 hrs/night. At the old school, students AND teachers are in senioritis mode. At current school, no way. This pace will continue through APs then hopefully they get a break!

[Anonymous]

A little "senioritus" and slept in the morning after a 5am metro ride to get in line for Supreme Court with other seniors, but nothing alarming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My daughter in FCPS said the seniors on her sports team skip school a lot or stay just until attendance is taken so they can come back and play in the game after school.

My kid’s FCPS takes attendance in every class. Didn’t realize som FCPS schools don’t do this.

[Anonymous]

Amazing how many people are proud of their failed parenting in this thread. Yes, you cam continue to have requirements and consequences of your teenagers when they still live in your home. And yes, I’ve done it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Last year, about this time, by then-senior started missing a lot of early morning classes. But he was very on top of his assignments, and made sure he completed them as required. He also had IB projects and exams, so he couldn't totally check out. He finished the year with straight A's but definitely was missing classes on a regular basis.

And you allowed this?

This was my kid, and yes, I did. He knew he was responsible for getting his work done and getting it done well, and he did that. If he wanted to sleep later a few days a week, I was OK with that. So far, he seems to be going to his college classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Amazing how many people are proud of their failed parenting in this thread. Yes, you cam continue to have requirements and consequences of your teenagers when they still live in your home. And yes, I’ve done it.

My kid is going but I disagree with you that it’s failed parenting if they’re not.
I’d argue that it’s important you let go a little and let them experience natural consequences rather than mommy’s carrot and stick while the stakes are relatively low.
They’ll learn about trade-offs and their priorities and limits.
So if my kid does decide to skip, they’ll have to sort out how it affects or does not affect their grade, or others’ perception of them, or whatever..

[Anonymous]

Senior parent here - straight A student has Bs senior year and could be on the way to one C. Will the college ((T25) rescind admission?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Amazing how many people are proud of their failed parenting in this thread. Yes, you cam continue to have requirements and consequences of your teenagers when they still live in your home. And yes, I’ve done it.

It's not failed parenting if they have straight As and are otherwise responsible people, PP. I would say it's just good time management and prioritizing

I have a different problem. My senior is so burned out: he goes to all his classes yet his grades are slipping inexorably and I'm worried, like the PP before me, about colleges rescinding admission.
I WISH I had a class-skipping, straight A senior!

[Anonymous]

AP exams and Private school. Still going with 45 days left.

[Anonymous]

College admission is an offer contingent upon maintaining the level that you attained when you applied. That goes double if you applied early and they did not see first semester grades.They DO ask for the full transcript before entering. A steep drop-off can absolutely lose you your slot.

[Anonymous]

DC still going and working hard as needs high final IB grades to meet UK conditional offers.
Pretty difficult when friends are partying all the way to their US schools...