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It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Posted under Daughters by MikeActually this happens twice a year. If you’re lucky they all have it on the same week. I’m not that lucky. One daughter this week, the other daughter the next week.
As a parent of teenagers you hate this experience. Not only does it involve late nights, causing for exhausted kids, but the drama that it induces usually sends me screaming into my pillow.
I am of course talking about high school finals. That twice a year ritual our school system uses to torture our children over facts and figures taught to them months ago. An experiment I’m sure that was conjured up by some evil school administrator to test what brain cells would be left after months of teacher’s lectures.
I feel for the kids. We’ve all been there. The late nights, the cramming sessions, living off of Twinkies and soda (they’d probably do that any ways). It’s just not a pretty sight.
As parents we just have to run, duck and cover during this whole ordeal. I wouldn’t begin to attempt to do either of my high school kids’ homework. Hell, they passed me up back in the 8th grade.
Looking over my daughter’s algebra homework I’m pretty sure I saw the formulas to a WMD (ask George Bush). And English, who knew you, could conjugate that many verbs, adverbs, personal pronouns and possessive adjectives. Did Shakespeare really have to go through all this?
Thankfully in my house we only have to deal with this twice a year. It could be worse. We could be dealing with the drama every month.
Oh yeah, we do…
Good luck with this. No finals for grade schoolers
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Thank God ours are over.
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Oh the midterms and finals. How they killed my ordinarily good, if unspectacular, GPA in one fell swoop. Don’t miss. Not looking forward to it (going back to school in the next year or so).
Ugh. Just the word ‘finals’ is enough to make me shudder. It only gets worse when they get to college too!
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I’m having problems keeping up with my 6th grader!!! Good luck man!
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I just finished living through this torture yesterday. And my kid has a disability, so it’s twice the fun because I have to help her. I was ready to lose my mind over “Antigon” and the French Revolution two nights ago. And don’t get me started on cellular respiration and the Krebs Cycle. Amazing how easy it is to forget all this stuff. Like my daughter always says to me, “What’s the point??”
P.S. Mike – come guess my photo from yesterday. I know you will know it.
I do not envy you or your daughters at all. I remember exam time all too well – from both high school and college. Yuck.
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Oy. I do remember mid-terms and finals….vividly. It’s an awful time.
Hang in there!
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Embarrsingly, I’m not even always aware when finals are going on – my kids don’t seem to talk about that much.
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I have one in college… so finals are his problem, and of the two still at home, one is so self sufficient I’d probably never know she was studying for finals and the other swears he did all his studying at school. Somehow they all manage to make it through it.
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Yeah, my fifth grade daughter’s homework often leaves me
scratching my head, and when I actually understand it, I
can’t explain it…….so soon she’ll have to wait for her Mom to get home.
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Just wait until I bring home 50 reports to grade…and he thinks finals is a “fun time.”
it seems I’m even struggling with some of my 8 year old’s homework, merely because I don’t understand the stooopid instructions. This one particular workbook, I totally don’t get. Any other homework, i do. This one workbook is written for people who speak another language or something. I dread when they are in highschool and I’m looking stuff up on the internet to help myself help them.
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At my kid’s school the parents complained so much about the torture of exams (because really, it’s just as bad for us!) that the school now has implemented “assessments” instead of finals. The kids have to do some kind of huge subject appropriate project that demonstrates their mastery of the designated subject. They still have routine tests throughout the year, just not the whoppers at the end of the grading periods.
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I have one in high school and one in college. Lucky for me I don’t have to deal with the college finals. The one high school student is more than enough to deal with. My sympathies.
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I remember when my guys went through that. I did all I could do to help them, and dust off the cobwebs for stuff I knew they’d never use.
Guess its the ability to learn is th ekey here.
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I’m sure they appreciate your compassion.
My grandkids have stuff that baffles me these days.
LOL
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Like worrying about the boys in their lives wasn’t enough.
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