Late to this but my brother loved "all quiet on the western front" and my son loved "my brother sam is dead.". One is ww1 and other is revolutionary war so would not apply to his life but he could say how he feels about kids his age in war. Make it about life in general. Honor, responsibility, maturity, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:16:43, that is wonderful but it is not the norm for a lot of families. I own a tutoring business and employ 10 other tutors as well as work with students myself. While I don't encourage the practice and don't believe I would go this route with my children there are many many parents who pay top dollar to have someone write large papers like this with their children. I have some families willing to pay $1000 for something of this length based on the amount of hrs their child takes to work on it. So honestly, the OP is the least of the troubles with parenting problems these days.

NP. You are making enough to employ 10 people, how is that you don't encourage the practice? The overabundance of tutors, and often the prices they charge to maintain exclusivity, contribute to parental anxiety.

Personally, if my kid worked his butt off to write a 10 page paper and one of his classmates had family pay someone to write the same paper for them I'd be pissed. I'm sure it happens. I try to not think about that because it makes me both angry and sad.

Into thin Air
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Little Princes
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Anonymous wrote:16:43, that is wonderful but it is not the norm for a lot of families. I own a tutoring business and employ 10 other tutors as well as work with students myself. While I don't encourage the practice and don't believe I would go this route with my children there are many many parents who pay top dollar to have someone write large papers like this with their children. I have some families willing to pay $1000 for something of this length based on the amount of hrs their child takes to work on it. So honestly, the OP is the least of the troubles with parenting problems these days.

NP. You are making enough to employ 10 people, how is that you don't encourage the practice? The overabundance of tutors, and often the prices they charge to maintain exclusivity, contribute to parental anxiety.

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Anonymous wrote:Is this the kind of assignment that 12th graders typically get these days? It seems so juvenile.

i was thinking the same thing. It seems more like grade 8 or 9 work.

Because a 12th grade paper should be 15 pages instead of 10? Really? This assignment has been around for ages and hopefully will continue as long.

I don't care what any of you have to say. He is going to UMass business school and will be totally fine.

OP, sorry about all the vitriol directed at you. I would imagine that most of the responses are from parents of much younger kids, or parents of students at private schools where the teachers are engaged in making these suggestions/having these conversations with the students. I can't see anything wrong with making some suggestions about what book to read. If your child feels free to accept or reject your suggestion, what is the big deal?

My DC is at a very large public high school and the teachers have extremely little time to engage the students on a one-to-one basis. I hope that all of you who want to ensure that your child is ready for college are throwing them into the same "sink-or-swim" environment -- don't coddle them by sending them to private school, where the teachers love to make suggestions about what books to read or how to study. Large public high schools are also very unforgiving about deadlines. Sick? Too bad. Computer foul-up? Sorry. Still going to dock your grade. The help parents give to students at large public high schools is generally just a fraction of the support offered at private school. And before you accuse me of leveling unfounded accusations, I've got kids at both public and private.

Anonymous wrote:Is this the kind of assignment that 12th graders typically get these days? It seems so juvenile.

i was thinking the same thing. It seems more like grade 8 or 9 work.

Anonymous wrote:Is this the kind of assignment that 12th graders typically get these days? It seems so juvenile.

I hope they never stop asking 12 graders to read a book that matters to them and write 10 pages about it.

Is this the kind of assignment that 12th graders typically get these days? It seems so juvenile.

Anonymous wrote:So what college are you two going to next year?

No fair. There are so many questions to be answered first: How may preschools have you applied to? How did you ever decide between the Alabaster White and the Sandy Beach for your foyer? Do you go back to your DH after he cheated for the 3rd time? Did your MIL ever come around to your way of thinking? Did the air mattress fit in the room at Sibly? Did you find the perfect give for your DH, your one year old, your nephew? Did you go with the brown or black shoes? Were you able to convince the K teacher that your child should be in the super-advanced group? Is your 13 month old the cutest ever? . . . . . . .
Give this OP a break. She's gotten more than her fair share.

So what college are you two going to next year?

As other posters have mentioned, take a hands off approach, obviously they were off base on me being a helicopter parents bc I would have selected a different story. He must have had some decent thesis bc the teacher accepted it so I am not asking any questions.

It's a short work novella by Steven King that's 1 part of a collection of 4 medium sized stories. It is also the story behind the movie Stand By Me. Sounds like your DS was entrepreneurial enough to select a short work with a supporting movie so as not to require too much effort to complete. I wonder what aspects of an overnight railway walkabout with three dysfunctional friends in order to find a dead body, that he finds parallels his average life?

The Body, no idea what the thesis is and I have never read the book.