Kids - School Grades

[cowgirl836]

It depends, if I remember correctly Carvers kids went to top notch colleges like MIT. You don’t get into schools like that with Bs and slacking.

I'd also like to side with Bryce and say who the hell waits to do their homework until 2am........................but I married that guy and the behavior did not change through college. It DID put him in a real bind with an Technical English paper and a Diff EQ midterm that lost him one level of a nice scholarship one time but I'd hazard a guess Carvers could have ragged on it til the cows came home and the behavior would have remained. And it's not been a problem in his professional career.........besides doing performance reviews at midnight, I suppose.

 

[cowgirl836]

This is going to give me the repeating nightmare of somehow screwing up a class I passed a decade ago tonight isn’t it…

Inquiring minds want to know if you had a dream where you were sitting in your underwear for the final of a chem class you didn't know you were in.

 

[FriendlySpartan]

Inquiring minds want to know if you had a dream where you were sitting in your underwear for the final of a chem class you didn't know you were in.

The class I didn’t know I was in was accurate but clothes are always on. Never had the naked in public dream. But still to this day have class I didn’t know I was in dreams, or somehow needing to retake a class from a decade ago

 

[carvers4math]

If that's the kid's goal, sure. I don't think any of my kids have any ambitions close to that.

That was never really his goal, he was interested in math and science and took a lot of it and wanted to challenge himself and see what his best was. When he got his ACT score, he did a what the heck, I might as well see what happens. He was shocked when he got the big packet in the mail. I think it was great for him to actually be around kids smarter than him.

 

[cowgirl836]

The class I didn’t know I was in was accurate but clothes are always on. Never had the naked in public dream. But still to this day have class I didn’t know I was in dreams, or somehow needing to retake a class from a decade ago

I think only once was I underclothed but it's been 13 years since I took a final and those still pop up every now and then. Chemistry was my most recent as well. The professor was a manager from a previous life who I didn't like. Why do our brains do this.

 

[TitanClone]

My parents were hands off, but my brother and I both breezed through high school so it was easy for them. I have a cousin who struggled her first couple years of high school, they thought it was ADHD but found out she had some weird issue with her eyes that caused her to lose focus after reading for some period of time. Getting glasses took her from B's and C's to A's and B's.

 

[Bigman38]

The class I didn’t know I was in was accurate but clothes are always on. Never had the naked in public dream. But still to this day have class I didn’t know I was in dreams, or somehow needing to retake a class from a decade ago

Still have those too. My senior year capstone type class was only offered in the Spring and I still have nightmares that I failed that class and I have to explain to everyone that I have to go to and pay for school for another year just so I can retake that one class.

 

[TitanClone]

High school is absolutely a meat grinder. Activities, homework, advanced coursework, etc. Ours all lifeguarded in the summer but didn’t work during school year. Still there were school nights they would be up until 2:00 am doing homework.

Did they go to some crazy prep school? I played sports year round, during the winter I had basketball, indoor soccer and a baseball hitting league at Creighton. Graduated with just under a 4.0 and around 30 college credits. I don't think I ever did homework after 8. College on the other hand there were plenty of nights I was on campus until 2 or later.

 

[LeaningCy]

The class I didn’t know I was in was accurate but clothes are always on. Never had the naked in public dream. But still to this day have class I didn’t know I was in dreams, or somehow needing to retake a class from a decade ago

Same. I get these two recurring dreams:

- A college class I didn't know I was in until the last day of the semester
- I show up to a HS football away game without my pads or uniform (not naked, just unprepared)

 

[CycloneErik]

Still have those too. My senior year capstone type class was only offered in the Spring and I still have nightmares that I failed that class and I have to explain to everyone that I have to go to and pay for school for another year just so I can retake that one class.

I failed someone in a senior seminar. They just blatantly plagiarized the paper, so they got an F. Thrm's the breaks.

 

[carvers4math]

Did they go to some crazy prep school? I played sports year round, during the winter I had basketball, indoor soccer and a baseball hitting league at Creighton. Graduated with just under a 4.0 and around 30 college credits. I don't think I ever did homework after 8. College on the other hand there were plenty of nights I was on campus until 2 or later.

No they went to public school and took a lot of AP and dual enrollment. The one that went to Caltech couldn’t use any of those credits, they don’t take them, not even AP with a 5.

They were all Eagle Scouts, were in multiple sports, and music.

Sometimes their activities took them outside of school the whole day with a lot to make up. Conference tennis meet was always a school day as was conference academic meet (aka quiz bowl). And if you keep winning at conference tennis you get home pretty late. State and regional math contests sometimes on a school day. Or maybe they went to Jazz Band practice at 7:00 am, then school, then basketball practice after school, snarfed down food, went to Scout meeting, and then had homework in AP Calculus and AP Physics. And they had a little open time in school but the wrestling coach sent the wrestler who going to qualify for state to see him and try to help him pass Algebra so he would be eligible.

The Caltech kid, one of his essay questions was what he did on a typical school day. They apparently did not judge his time management so harshly.

 

[BCClone]

Did they go to some crazy prep school? I played sports year round, during the winter I had basketball, indoor soccer and a baseball hitting league at Creighton. Graduated with just under a 4.0 and around 30 college credits. I don't think I ever did homework after 8. College on the other hand there were plenty of nights I was on campus until 2 or later.

How did you not do homework after 8 on any night? Tuesday wrestling or basketball where you leave before school gets out and home at 11 makes that nearly impossible.

 

[carvers4math]

How did you not do homework after 8 on any night? Tuesday wrestling or basketball where you leave before school gets out and home at 11 makes that nearly impossible.

Somehow our school always managed to put the farther bus rides on Tuesday instead of Friday.

 

[BCClone]

Somehow our school always managed to put the farther bus rides on Tuesday instead of Friday.

And teachers would hammer homework those nights.

 

[Bigman38]

I failed someone in a senior seminar. They just blatantly plagiarized the paper, so they got an F. Thrm's the breaks.

Oh man, what'd they do? Just pay for another year?

 

[FriendlySpartan]

How did you not do homework after 8 on any night? Tuesday wrestling or basketball where you leave before school gets out and home at 11 makes that nearly impossible.

Is that an Iowa thing? I never left school early for sports.

I’m in the same boat, I did all my class work in other classes so I rarely had anything to take home.

 

[CycloneErik]

Oh man, what'd they do? Just pay for another year?

I don't know the resolution. She was a junior and pretty much bullied the profs around. Well, not pretty much. She just pushed them around. That's how she took this a year early.

In my part of it, as a one-semester hire, the chair asked me about it after she raked him over the coals. I told him what I found, and that was done for the moment. Then she pushed around the dean, and the chair asked me to give her a summer chance (that I wasn't paid for). I agreed and set up a schedule for her with clear expecations, so she knew what to do and I essentially didn't have to do anything but report that she missed the deadlines.

She missed them all. I reported that. I assume they gave her an A when all was said and done.

 

[BCClone]

Is that an Iowa thing? I never left school early for sports.

I’m in the same boat, I did all my class work in other classes so I rarely had anything to take home.

When weighins are at 4 with an hour and a half drive or the 4 pm JV game, you have to. We are lucky that we are kinda central. The far away schools have 2.5 hour drives.

 

[NorthCyd]

Same. I get these two recurring dreams:

- A college class I didn't know I was in until the last day of the semester
- I show up to a HS football away game without my pads or uniform (not naked, just unprepared)

I have the missing a class dream often still, and I've known a lot of others who do to. Makes me think college is a low key traumatic experience for a lot of us. I know I used to get so stressed out over finals I almost always came down with a cold or some other illness that week even though I always did fine.

 

[carvers4math]

Is that an Iowa thing? I never left school early for sports.

I’m in the same boat, I did all my class work in other classes so I rarely had anything to take home.

They would schedule basketball with like a 2.5 hour bus ride and put freshman, jv, and varsity all in the same bus. Freshman game would start at 5:00, so they leave maybe 1:45.

If you sort of begged and signed your life away, you could sign something and let them ride home with you and at least could do some things in the car. The coaches frowned on that and not watching the other teams play if you tried to do some homework during the freshman game or something but my kids still did that.