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First day of school woes.
My oldest daughter is a junior in high school this year. She's signed up for several Advanced Placement courses this year. For the AP US History class, they had a summer assignment. There was 400-page book of very dense (but often interesting, according to Julia) history, and then detailed charts to create for the end of every chapter. The whole project took about twenty hours to complete.
My daughter is a goody-little-two-shoes. It's awesome. She plans out her work into manageable sections and she's very diligent in getting stuff done inside a cushioned block of time to keep the stress to a minimum. She does this on her own. She parceled out her time over the last month to get all of her summer work done. (She also had work to complete for AP English.) She finished on schedule, early yesterday. Today was the first day of school.
It was made completely clear, at the end of last year, that this assignment had to be done by the time school started. The notebook was to be turned in on the second day of school, and there would be a test that same day in class on the material.
Today, Day One, the teacher kind of shrugged it off, saying that he'd give some extra time since a lot of people didn't finish the work. My daughter is, shall we say, displeased. She has been nose-to-the-grindstone over many summer hours that she would rather have been doing something else. Frankly, she's pissed. All those kids who couldn't be bothered won't see any consequence, and I don't have much in the way of words of wisdom to make her feel any better about it.
My oldest daughter is a junior in high school this year. She's signed up for several Advanced Placement courses this year. For the AP US History class, they had a summer assignment. There was 400-page book of very dense (but often interesting, according to Julia) history, and then detailed charts to create for the end of every chapter. The whole project took about twenty hours to complete.
My daughter is a goody-little-two-shoes. It's awesome. She plans out her work into manageable sections and she's very diligent in getting stuff done inside a cushioned block of time to keep the stress to a minimum. She does this on her own. She parceled out her time over the last month to get all of her summer work done. (She also had work to complete for AP English.) She finished on schedule, early yesterday. Today was the first day of school.
It was made completely clear, at the end of last year, that this assignment had to be done by the time school started. The notebook was to be turned in on the second day of school, and there would be a test that same day in class on the material.
Today, Day One, the teacher kind of shrugged it off, saying that he'd give some extra time since a lot of people didn't finish the work. My daughter is, shall we say, displeased. She has been nose-to-the-grindstone over many summer hours that she would rather have been doing something else. Frankly, she's pissed. All those kids who couldn't be bothered won't see any consequence, and I don't have much in the way of words of wisdom to make her feel any better about it.