GREAT NEWS!!!!

My one Grand Daughter just left after wishing my Wife happy Mothers day. We will get together later as a family. The news!!! The grand Daughter just found out she will be taking all but one of her courses next fall at the local college. She is just a junior right now in high school but has already been taking three college courses. By the time she graduates next spring she will have enough credits to be a sophomore in college. GREAT!!!!!

She is scary smart. She has a straight 4.0 and is tied with a cousin ( my other son's daughter) for tops in her class. She also is the leader of her sisters and cousin in their corn selling business. They are moving 200 bushels a week. The thing is they are getting $7-10 a bushel depending on quantity and delivery distance.

She told me a funny one last week about that. One lady that was with a family that was buying some of the corn asked if the corn was organic. My grand daughter's reply " No, Ours is better" I LOVE IT!!!!

Congratulations

She is lucky her high school teachers are not stifling her by discouraging her from taking college classes. I remember a few kids in that position growing up and it took the "concern" of a few high school teachers to shut down the college classes. I wish parents had the money to utilize tutoring services such as Stanley Kaplan to have their kids fully prepared for college. I know that yes we pay school taxes but a lot of the time the luck of the draw says your kid is not going to get the right instructor to get them through calculus for example. Also, too many schools are wrapped up in having critical teachers in coaching sports versus making themselves available for supplementary help after school concludes for the day.

Why would any teacher discourage someone from advancing themselves. Some of our teachers need to be taken out behind the barn for some serious talk.

I honestly do not have an answer to your first question as I was not personally in such a position. It could be that the teacher was worried about being shown up or maybe the teacher had proper concern that the material in high school would be neglected.


My experience with high school was that the high school environment was generally miserable which affected my ability to focus. Most farm kids who had the ability to transfer to another district did so because they got tired of being treated poorly by other kids and in some cases teachers. Transferring was not an option for me and GED's back in the day received little respect so I stuck it out until graduation. I think if a kid is miserable from the time he gets on a bus until he gets back off upon getting to their home that his/her grades will suffer. The person that does not lose focus due to being miserable all the time because of school is fairly rare.

I had a couple of teachers "advise" me not to take a couple of courses I wanted to take in High School. Always regretted letting them talk me out of it, too. Teacher quality was going downhill to some extent, even back then.

In my state, when a student does full time college while at high school level it takes money from the district. It also takes an above average student from the classroom which makes a teacher's job more difficult as they don't have the above average student to challenge the below average student to try to excel.

NY 986- Talk about a tough time in school...My dad was the Principal.

Always enjoy stories about success in the adolescent years of the generations that follow.

We all have a path in this life somewhere. She's started on a good one already.

The situation you have helped them with, by using the old granary if I recall, they are very fortunate to have the opportunity and the experience that goes with it.

How do you think the story will be told when she's your age? It'll be a good one for sure!

In your last post teachers stunk . In this one they seem to have educated your granddaughter to scary smart . So did the teachers get smarter? Maybe you'll tell me she was home schooled .

What is her cost on the classes? My granddaughter as well as others at the school take those classes and they do it on line at no cost to the students. This is in Ohio.

Congratulations. I am a big supporter of good teachers and I think they have an impossible job when they have such a wide range of abilities in their classes. Both of my children took what they call post secondary in Minnesota. Classes and books were no charge and we have a good Jr college in town so it worked very well. They were better suited for a college environment and did very well there. As for the teachers and classes, I think it would be better for both is the kids who are bored in class are gone. The teachers can better understand the needs of the kids that aren't getting it as well (nothing to do with how smart they are) and teach to them better. It helps kids to be able to afford college. Just my experience.

My granddaughter graduated yesterday with a BS in Advertising and Public Relations

Thats Awesome JD , congrats to both of them.

that is great news!!

Boy, I'm confused. Does she have good teachers or not???? Last post you said teachers were lazy and for the most part incompetent.

True Son: She has a very smart and dedicated MOTHER and Father that care. Since the first day of public schooling she has come home to a house that values education and made DARN sure she was taught what she needed to know in life. The fact is a big part of her education was at home. He Mother keeps all the records for the farms and the repair shop. My grand daughters have been taught how to do these record books since they turn ten.

So how are our local teachers??? Fair at the best. If your a gifted student then you will get a fairly good education. If your average or truly need help then not so good.

The cost of the credit hours is covered by the district. Books and other fees are paid by the family.

dr sportster: I knew someone would jump me and your the second one. So here goes. Her success has little to do with her public school teachers. Her Mother/Father/family has always taught her what she should know rather then what the school/government thought was good enough. These skills include: Reading and writing at a college level by the time she was a Freshman in High School, She can use a slide rule and knows how to do square roots manually, She can speak four languages: English, German( My Mother), French ( Her Fraternal Grand Mother) , and Spanish ( Our Pastor).

Much of the trouble in today's education system is too many people think that the schools should be doing all of the teaching. I find that the parents and family should do a larger part. Maybe the majority of the teaching should be done at home.

The local system and the family have been at odds over the education the Grand Daughters get for the last 7-8 years. There are state funds set aside for higher education at the high school level. The local system was taking those funds and using them elsewhere while telling the state that they were using the funds as needed for the higher achieving students. The reality was that the administrators would not approve any students to take the advanced courses. There was a group of four families that petitioned the state board of education for the lack of funding of higher education. The local district was in some hot water for awhile. Several of the local administrators took early retirement rather than face the music. My oldest son and his wife where one of the four families. The trouble for us was not the funding. The colleges would not accept the students without the recommendations from the local district.

My poor view of most teachers/administrators is directly the result of the last 20 years in the local area. The sad part is we have above average schools according to the testing done. So how bad are the teachers/administrators in the low scoring districts????

JD Seller- Please understand that I do not mean to be critical. I just want to help.....

Your use of the word 'your' for "you're" really make your posts hard to read.

Greg there is a very simple solution to that issue. Just do not read my posts!!!!

JD Seller- LOL! Just trying to help you not look like an fool.

HTH

Just had the academic year end here, #1 daughter just finished the first year of her Master's degree at Western Michigan University and maintained a 4.0 GPA while teaching 2 of their 100 level classes. Daughter #2 finished her sophomore year at college, she hasn't gotten her grades back yet but she remains solidly in the honors program, keeps her scholarships (on top of the tuition off set we get because her Mom works at the school), was nominated to the theatrical honor society (even though she's not a theater major) and managed to pick up a summer internship at a local WWII POW museum. We got a text message from #2's Department head, seems the board of directors at the museum was quite impressed with a certain young lady and wanted to know why the school had been holding back the quality students from them all these years. #2 Daughter has impressed a few folks along the way, do to some medical issues she completed the last two years of High School in a virtual academy (on line learning). One of their requirements is a volunteer class every year, here in North Central Iowa some of the smaller towns have set up non profits to run the local movie theaters so the small towns can have/keep a theater. So for her volunteer class she worked at the theater, about 1/2 way through her senior year they ask if she'd consider being one of the managers, but after the board got to thinking they didn't know how volunteers would deal with working for a high school kid, so she didn't get to be a manager until she was a freshman in college. Not to bad for the daughters of a Reformed Dairy Farmer with a Did Barely Graduate rating from Michigan State University and an Art Historian that didn't complete her degree until she was 35 that graduated from or started High School in a mill town in Northern Wisconsin.

JDSeller- I apologize.

Greg there is nothing to apologize for. This time of the year I am growly as an old bear. Trouble sleeping on top of working long hours adds up.

I don't envy the teachers at Lexington, Nebraska.

Kids/ parents are from 32 different countries and they speak 21 languages.

Started coming in when Ioway Beef took over the old New Holland combine plant.