Posts by Lisa Bishop28

Jeffrey Edwards5 said:I wasn't talking about final grades at the end of the term or the year, but rather what happens during the school year itself.
For example, my kid had surgery and was out for two weeks due to health issues. He came back to a mountain of missed work. I'm not asking for handouts, but a little more empathy—maybe some leeway to catch up or just not being penalized with lower grades for stuff out of his control—was nowhere to be found.
The same thing happened when he had to quarantine for a week after catching something. He ended up with Cs and Ds because they wouldn't give him a chance to make up the work.
He’s in 7th grade, and all of this is going to tank his standing. I don't even want to think about how many points he'll lose.

When I read about everyone's kids crushing it—aiming for Harvard Law School or places like MIT or Toledo... I can't help but wonder where the kids go who don't have a perfect 4.0 GPA? Where do the kids land when they don't hit that minimum score for a top-tier prep school?
Do those kids even exist?

On the other hand, I remember having a friend in class whose mom would basically coach her on how to fake excuses for absences. It was the perfect way to justify lower grades, but also the perfect tool to demand "special consideration" right before an exam or a midterm.

I want to say, it's incredibly difficult to take an individualized approach nowadays because someone will always complain. But then again, I totally get that sticking strictly to the rules can actually hurt the kids who were legitimately sick.

Then, of course, I think about the son of that big corporate executive who didn't quite make the cut for University of California, Berkeley. His parents quickly secured a dyslexia diagnosis, and suddenly he was in, followed by months of them badgering the professors because the "accommodations" weren't being tailored enough to his needs. All because he had to maintain straight As to keep up with his expensive private schooling abroad.

There are definitely kids who don't make it into those elite academies.😁 My sister was the first in our family not to attend a high-end prep school; she went to a local vocational school instead. Mom was absolutely frantic with worry about it.
But look at her now: she ended up going to the same college I did, she's involved in tons of projects, and thanks to her classmates, her networking is incredible. She actually found a job easily even before graduating. Honestly, she's in a much stronger position in the job market than I am, despite my perfect GPA through middle and high school. 😉

I don't think anyone should be sending their kids off anywhere right now. Honestly, nobody should be heading out at all until every single person in the house has cleared a PCR test. From what I've seen, you almost never have just one person testing positive—it’s usually several people in the household at once.

Starting a new thread here! I’m looking to connect with anyone who has recently undergone surgery for rib exostosis. I'd love to know how long the hospital stay typically lasts and what the recovery process is actually like. From what I understand, general anesthesia is required, right?
I could really use some advice. It turns out I’ve been dealing with constant inflammation because the exostoses in both my ears are quite pronounced and progressing quickly—something my wonderful primary care doctor neglected to mention since she assumed I was too young to need the procedure!!!!
Now she’s telling me I might need to be hospitalized for at least two or three weeks, which is a huge problem because I’m currently breastfeeding. :/ That timeframe sounds absolutely wild to me.

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