Anonymous
06/19/2023 11:01
Subject: Re:All A's in MS - what gift?
A New Car! 
Anonymous
06/19/2023 11:00
Subject: All A's in MS - what gift?
Take them to a local bookstore and buy a book for them and a book for their middle school library and donate it.
Anonymous
06/19/2023 10:55
Subject: Re:All A's in MS - what gift?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:All As isn’t anything unusual in public school these days. It means they met the standard.
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”.
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
06/19/2023 10:48
Subject: Re:All A's in MS - what gift?
Anonymous wrote:All As isn’t anything unusual in public school these days. It means they met the standard.
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
06/19/2023 10:44
Subject: All A's in MS - what gift?
What exactly are you celebrating?
Anonymous
06/19/2023 10:42
Subject: Re:All A's in MS - what gift?
All As isn’t anything unusual in public school these days. It means they met the standard.
Anonymous
06/19/2023 10:39
Subject: All A's in MS - what gift?
Anonymous wrote:The gift is the grades. Period.
They go to school and succeed for themselves not for you.
Anonymous
06/19/2023 10:38
Subject: All A's in MS - what gift?
Anonymous wrote:The gift is the grades, OP. That's the gift.
Agree. At some point, the motivation needs to be internal.
Anonymous
06/19/2023 10:37
Subject: All A's in MS - what gift?
The gift is the grades. Period.
Anonymous
06/19/2023 10:36
Subject: All A's in MS - what gift?
Anonymous wrote: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.
+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
06/19/2023 10:34
Subject: All A's in MS - what gift?
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
06/19/2023 10:32
Subject: All A's in MS - what gift?
The gift is the grades, OP. That's the gift.
Anonymous
06/19/2023 10:21
Subject: All A's in MS - what gift?
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
06/19/2023 10:19
Subject: All A's in MS - what gift?
My rising 6th grader got all As in 5th grade. We got her a phone for her birthday ( summer bday)
Anonymous
06/19/2023 10:17
Subject: All A's in MS - what gift?
My DS got all A's in middle school. We should probably do something for his achievement. Any ideas?