I officially have two high schoolers now. Oh how sad that makes me when I think about my little girl being a freshman. The big kids got straight A's on their report cards. Wish I knew what the twins got, but because of No Child Left Behind (AKA No Child Get Ahead), their school doesn't use letter grades. So I guess I'll wait until they are in middle school to know how they are really doing.
Eric just finished up finals. Finals only count for 15% of his grade so he didn't have to do well on any of them to maintain his A's. But his history teacher "egged" him on by saying that he had a student take the whole exam in 20 minutes and still manage to get a 90%. I guess Eric took that as a challenge and finished the whole exam in 12 minutes and got a 97%. When we were discussing this last night, Eric was very happy with his grade. Erin (in typical Erin fashion) asked why he didn't take the whole two hours so he could get a 100%. We laughed. Two kids, two totally different approaches to life.
Eric told his history teacher that he might get Erin next year in class. The teacher asked about Erin. Eric answered, "She's just like me, but with no ego." So the teacher took that as Erin was even better than Eric. Any teacher would be lucky to have Erin in his/her class. She is such a sweetheart and hard worker.
Oh, I almost forgot, Eric's teacher never did answer his email plea for mercy. But no matter, someone else must have turned it in for him because Eric saw it graded on the teacher's desk yesterday. What a relief. I can't get too mad at the teacher for not responding. His wife passed away recently from cancer. So I guess he has a lot on his mind, understandably.
Eric leaves for EFY early tomorrow morning and we leave for Mount Rushmore this evening. We are sad to be separated from Eric but we are sure that he'd much rather go to EFY than hang with the family at a National Park.
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