My only job was to delivery my dd safely to the exam room. Of course, as I'm accelerating on a busy street, the cars ahead of me are braking for a pedestrian. So I need to brake *really hard* like my tires would have been squealing if there weren't anti-lock breaks. So it was a weirdly quiet slam on the brakes. I didn't hit the guy in front and the guy behind me didn't hit me, so it was all good, but scary, as I have never had to brake so hard in I don't know how long. And of course it happens today.

I can't believe I'm asking this, but what time should I pick up after ap chem? 11am?

It's still a free country. No one can make her take the test. Unless has the teacher stated that her grade depends on her AP score? Unlikely because they don't get their scores back until July. She's a senior and already admitted to college, so no one is going to care.

My dd is taking AP biology her sophomore year and wants to do some preparation this summer. She hasn't had high school biology, but she did take AP chemistry her freshman year (this year) and is doing well. Is there anything particularly difficult in AP biology that she could get a handle on now? Memorize the Kreb's cycle? Learn how a kidney works? Study the difference between transcription and translation?

Mom is (nearly) always right. It's a rare internship program for high school students that isn't competitive. Your son deserves hearty congratulations! Civil engineering and architecture are practically next door neighbors, right?

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Good luck to your son! I consider my job complete when I've delivered my dd safely to the exam room; no car accidents, no delays. We'll compare AP exam stories next week!

:iagree: In high school math we didn't turn in homework. The first half of class (roughly) was devoted to answering questions about homework problems we couldn't solve the previous night. Second half of class was introducing the next concept and assigning the next night's homework. Lather, rinse, repeat. It works surprisingly well.

I was chatting with a Chinese American friend of mine who lives in a lovely home, lovely expensive neighborhood, school district with a great reputation. She was complaining about the low quality of the math instruction at her dd's public school. When I expressed sympathy, she said, "That's okay! I send my daughter to Chinese School!" Out where I live, the "excellent" public schools in desirable districts have another thing going on. Many of the immigrant families (Asian, Russian) send their students to after school programs or weekend schools, which students attend in addition to their regular public school day. I'm not sure, but I wonder if white parents are even aware of this? This explains why at predominantly Asian schools, white students do much worse than their Asian colleagues. The public schools get a good reputation because their best students are often being educated elsewhere.

I'm going to weigh in on the "please be kind" part. You have asked an excellent question, and I want to encourage you to keep asking questions of this sort on these boards. You are doing your students a great service by being completely 100% clear on what is going on with even these basic operations. Good for you! If you encounter another topic along these lines, please keep asking; the pp's and others will provide lots of great ideas. I'm going to add another bit that may or may not be helpful. In addition to arranging your counters into a 4x7 array, you can take those same counters and arrange them into a 2x14 array. Or a 1x28 array. Because all those operations provide the same result. Have fun and go deep whenever possible!

If you read only 2 books on homeschooling high school, I would make your second book How to be a High School Superstar by Cal Newport.

Our school implied in an email that one could keep a cell phone in a back pack which would be kept outside the classroom. It was not stated explicitly however. :closedeyes:

What is the clue in the title that indicates it's remedial?

UTD sounds like a cool place. It reminds me of an old ad campaign to celebrate the 125th anniversary of UCSF, which is only grad schools in health sciences: UCSF: 125 years and still not sports. The videos showed celebrated scientists and Nobel prizewinners wearing pads and helmets and throwing footballs, badly.

Weirdly, football is becoming less popular due to fear of concussions. "The nation's largest youth football program, Pop Warner, saw participation drop 9.5 percent between 2010-12, a sign that the concussion crisis that began in the NFL is having a dramatic impact at the lowest rungs of the sport." This article claims youth football is in a "fight for survival."

Wow. Just wow. I would be so terribly grateful to have the opportunity for my kids to participate on your rocket team. We have nothing like that here. I can't believe he walked away from that opportunity. Small towns can be so insular, insulated from the competitive world at large. But I thought the internet has solved much of that. When I was growing up in the midwest, not a small town, but not a metropolitan center either, I showed up at a tippy top name college having never heard of the Westinghouse science contests or Stuyvesant H.S. or anything else that the elite students were doing. (Except AHSME. AHSME was big at my school, for which I will always be grateful.) Now, with the internet I thought most kids were on a more even playing field, at least as far as information was concerned or finding an online community if your local one isn't supportive. You may not necessarily have the same opportunities as kids in big cities, but at least you have something of a fighting chance to prove yourself.

Oops. :blushing:

Are we talking about AP chem is PA Homeschoolers? If so, it's been a great experience for us. Dd started 2 weeks late because she had been enrolled in regular school and it took her that long to see the writing on the wall, lol. Still, she threw herself into the material and is keeping up fairly well. Clear out your schedule because it is a lot of work, and the burden is on the student to clarify anything that isn't 100% crystal clear. I was dd's dummy advisor before she emailed Mr. M with any questions. If I couldn't answer the question, then it was deemed worthy of his attention. She contacted him frequently with questions. Some TAs were responsive, but most of them seem to be meh at best. But the support for the exam itself is phenomenal. Mr. M provides lots of insights into being successful on the exam, provides lots of AP style practice questions, lots of AP practice tests. Dd and I feel like she is thoroughly prepared for the exam next week. However, we met up with another student who has fallen way behind and is struggling. I prefer to think of this class as more like a guided self-study under the tutelage of a very experienced teacher. I think it has prepared her for further self-study in situations where she won't necessarily have great teachers, aka college.

You know, I think I missed the pop up because I was checking and trying to edit it on my phone. Thank you for letting me know.

Does anyone else have "Home School Clearinghouse" as the name of your homeschool, according to the College Board? We tried to change it, but it seems to be predetermined. It's kind of a weird name. Otherwise, dd14 is set to take AP chem at a local high school.

Heck, sometimes I have my dd14 read my emails before I send them. I don't think either of us will send a difficult or tricky email without first running it by whoever happens to be in the family room at the time.

My math teacher's son wanted to attend med school. Math teachers don't exactly make the big bucks, so his son went to Univ. of Iowa undergrad and for med school, probably paying next to nothing (this is in the 80s and 90s). I don't keep in touch, but I imagine he's living a comfortable upper middle class lifestyle in some medium sized midwestern city. Math teacher is comfortably retired. I'm finding many people I read about or I know IRL rely on their own parents to help with things like house downpayments, school tuition, and emergency expenses. Maybe our parents were better with their money, but I think our decline in real wages (and the absence of union protections and pensions) are the real reason. But will we folks in our generation have the money to help the next generation?

Another thing I was curious about was the ROI of attending Stanford, particularly if you intend to go to med school. If your goal is to enter private practice, then I think the right strategy is to minimize your undergrad and medical school costs (state schools all the way). Now, if his daughter intends to go into academia, then maybe Stanford and Harvard was a good choice. Maybe. OTOH if she were wanting to study engineering and create professional networks in Silicon Valley, then she would have made a good choice, although frankly, there are plenty of software engineers working here who attended state schools (imagine!). It's hard to say no to a school like Stanford, but like all other colleges, there's really nothing magical about it. I'm not familiar with Emory, but if it charges private school tuition, then that seems like overkill for someone going into social work, as a PP mentioned a few pages back. This assumes his daughters knew what they wanted to be before entering college, which makes all these decisions much easier.

I want to read about the happy ending where you prove them all wrong.

I'm going to point out that Cal Newport argues against double majors in his book How to Win at College. He believes college is a time to go deep, not broad. While there are plenty of examples of successful double majors in this thread, you may want to read more about his thoughts. (His latest book is actually called Deep Work, so you know where is biases are.)