OT - Parental Bragging, Report Card Edition

Jai-Bo

Always great pride when our kids do great!!! Keep her on the right track and she'll be less burden on your pocket in the long run.

My baby just graduated high school with a 4.5.  He did this all while playing football/baseball/basketball and being dual enrolled (college classes).  His football team went to state and ended up 14-0 for the year.  He got a scholarship to FSU.  We just finished the orientation and are waiting to move him in August!  Be sad to see my fishing/hunting buddy leave but take great pride in all his accomplishments and look forward to what GOD has planned in his future.

Keep ya'lls kids doing good in school and in their 10th grade year, take college courses (if offered in your state). He was about 20 credits shy of his AA so this is less time he has to spend on his BA. 

cazzy

JohnInCarolina said:

gdenby said:

thetrim said:

JohnInCarolina said:

gdenby said:

Start saving for college now. I had a job that subsidized my kids' tuition, but room and board and books was as much for each one as for the family house and food.

I think a lot of families still have almost no idea of the costs and just how much needs to be stashed away if you don't want your kids taking on loans.

It's the salaries of all those dim-witted college professors that they have to pay for.

Allow me to politely disagree. Most "professors" these days are adjuncts who make very little, and have no job security. Full professors, w. tenure, do make very good money. Think medical doctors' income. But full professors can make more money moonlighting for businesses during breaks than they make from teaching.

Trim was just giving me the business because he knows what I do.

As for salaries, the average full prof at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor makes around $150k.  That's comparable to MDs, but at the bottom end of the spectrum.  

The work done by adjuncts varies widely between institutions, and in departments as well.  What you've written above may well be true to your own experience, but it's not the case everywhere.  We have several adjunct faculty in our department, but only one of them actually teaches classes, and he also has his own architectural firm.  He's not teaching classes for us because he needs the money.  

It's for the TA's, right????  

DaveRichardson

I'm just glad that both of mine got promoted to the next grade. 

The just-turned-13-year-old-girl is moody and reclusive. 

The 8-year-old has the attention span of a rock in a bag of Royal Oak.....

I'm in the boat that I really don't care if they turn out to be doctors, lawyers, business women, or tradespeople, if they enjoy what they do and can honestly say they work for what they bring home, I'm happy!  My dad helped develop the GED and ESL program here in GA, I've been to so many GED graduation ceremonies in car plants, warehouses, and jails, that I am glad to see people making themselves better.  Watching a life-long criminal LEARN to read a **** and Jane book and seeing them cry because they read a book is an amazing thing.

Kids, just be able to say that you enjoy what you do, is what I tell mine.

da87

@DaveRichardson, lots of time for change - my son and I argued over grades and effort for years. His response, "I have the highest grades on the (pick your sport season) team.." which unforunately wasn't saying much at his school....  Went to look at colleges in 10th grade, told his mom on a flight home "I wish I had better grades and could get into some of these schools". I told him that night that we'd find a way together to cover the cost of the best school he could get into. Long story short, he turned it around spring of 10th grade, killed it Jr and Sr year and crushed the ACT - got into a great school and out in 4 years with a double major, dean's list multiple times and a 3.7....and a job. It clicks for each of them at a different time - didn't for me until my 30's and back to achool part time for grad degree.