[quote=treehugger]Over-achieving, smart kids, I can’t relate. My 14 year old step-daughter failed 9th grade freshman geometry. I would prefer she take the course over during the summer, am in process of tracking down the high school to figure out an approved course, likely on-line.
We are having a tough time trying to explain to our over indulged, spoiled little white girl that soccer, field hockey, and lacrosse are GONE until she proves she can keep her grades up. Plus her mom has filled her head with visions of UC Davis and Berkeley, now I the bad step mom am trying to explain that in a overachieving world even a B knocks you out of the running, let alone a D!
Anyone have kids that took geometry for high school over the summer, on-line or other?[/quote]
Yeah, I believe UCs (the “tier 1/2” ones) are pretty hard to get in now…
I’ve read especially UC Berkeley and UCLA being the toughest…(probably depending on if you want to live in nor cal or so cal…)
Then, I think UC Davis and UC San Diego are just a step below those 2.
For the people with HS kids, maybe they can share if they applied/were able to get in. It seems much harder now though from all I’ve read.
I agree that dealing with over indulged and “entitled” kids (and adults) is the worst thing since they view the world and everything in it as something that’s just supposed to be given to them while in reality, a lot of “things” / “stuff” are extra/luxuries.
Perhaps another depression to the scale of the 1920s-30s is in order for these people.
In a way, it’s not their fault that they think this way. I blame it on the mass market media, companies and over sensitive parents…
