High School?!!!

[weasleyfan]

i'm graduating this year... just turned 18 and got my first car last week!



whoot whoot

[nutz4hpotter6]

My son is a sophomore this year. He is having a hard time because all the kids are so cruel in school. They are teasing him but I don't know what about. My daughter is a Junior and seems to be having a good year.

Shanny that is great about getting a car and graduating this year.

[RoxyRocks]

i am 16 and can drive and have my own mustang its so pretty I love it. I am a junior now but HS is so hard junior year is the hardest one ever!!! take easy classess trust me its soo hard, i am teased but i mean i am on the varstiy volleyball team so i am not as much of a loser, but i am teased if they n=knew about my HP stuff, I am also on the track team so its fun too but I am smart and all and have alot of friends.

[nutz4hpotter6]

That is good Roxy. My daughter is a junior and 17 right now. Son will be 16 in less then a week. I am sure everyone gets teased and everyone handles it differently. My son has been on varsity soccer both freshman and sophomore year. He has also been in the Science Olympiad since the 6th grade. The kids in his class are the most back stabbing brats I have ever seen. I worked with those kids and I saw it first hand how cruel they were in 3rd and 4th grade. He is just too smart for his own good. Most of the people he gets along with are in college. The kids his age are very immature and have been jealous of him since middle school. He also says that school is not challenging him anymore. He is in all honors classes and when the teachers teach something new he understands it before anyone else does and then he has to sit there for the next couple of classes while the teacher tries to get everyone on the same level.

[Leigh]

Aw, I hope he's not taking the insults too seriously. People are horrible sometimes and you just have to disregard it. =/

[nutz4hpotter6]

Well he is in a cyber school now. We will see how this goes. He says he is still bored. I am at the point of seeing if he can take a test to show that he can move up a grade level. Plus not knowing what the teasing was about makes it hard to know if it was just that or more to the problem.

[babylupin]

Nutz, children are shocking.

Anyone remotely threatening to their self-assureance and they throw daggers in every direction.

I think alot of peope on this site have played victim to these immature idiots.

As for you son getting along with college students, all the better for him! (I was one of those people too, and I did skip a grade)

[nutz4hpotter6]

Yes Baby I do realize how shocking children are. I worked with kids for 9 years at the elementary level (4th grade). I have been trying to contact his counselor at this new school to see what I can do but she hasn't returned my calls. I will have to talk to some one else and see what she thinks I should do.

My only fear about having him move up a grade now is that it is too late and his sister is a year ahead of him so that would put them in the same grade. I just don't want her to feel jealous or anything.

[RoxyRocks]

sorry i am trying to help but if my brother got moved into the same grade as me i would kill him and make fun of him sooo much for being a nerd i am soo mean.. i am usually the immature idiot who makes fun of people becuase I was made fun of. I go to the cousnlar every now and then but I feel bad. Thats why my JDC said that I should try olleyball because I can hurt people emotionally and physically. I have never told anyone that wow that felt good to say.

IF the kid wants to move up let him move up idk its a hard choice to make talk to them though.

[nutz4hpotter6]

I know you are just trying to help. All he keeps telling us is that he is bored and that they move to slow in high school. He is just a very quiet person and doesn't like to talk too people too much.

I don't know how my daughter would feel about it. If they are in separate schools I don't think it would matter.

That is good that you talk to your counselor every so often.

[babylupin]

Yes, I can fully understand that your daughter may feel a little off-put, but I personally still think that if it benefits your son, then she will learn to deal (I do not mean that in a nasty way).

I think that kind of change is character building, and makes every person assess where they stand.

If they were in different schools that would work wonderfully, but if your son is bored, he needs to do something that really makes him think.

I understand that you don't want to make either of your children feel insignificant, so I understand that if there is doubt to how your daughter would take it if her brother was in the same class. I can only imagine the terrible things that some children would say, and the backlash it could bring between the two siblings.

I'm positive it will all work out for the best.

[nutz4hpotter6]

Thanks Babylupin.

I appreciate everyones insight. I will let you know what does happen. I want my son to feel happy like he was when he was younger. He loves school always has, he says if he could go all year he would.

Thanks again everyone.

[RoxyRocks]

He sounds so much like my best guy friend Michael is so much like that he is so sweet and funny to me and no one else really, but he is a freaking genius i feel so bad for him when he gets 100 in our honors classes and the others fail and whenever he has a question people are all like PUT YOUR HAND DOWN MICHAEL and i am just like awww because its sad. is that how your son is?

[nutz4hpotter6]

I don't really know about that Roxy. I don't know if he ever has any questions. I remember when he graduated from the eighth grade he received many awards for his grades and athletics. The best award wad receiving a check for $250 for academic excellence and all the guys that were just friendly to him during soccer season now wanted to be his best friend. Some realized that brains to pay.

He is a very quiet person and doesn't like to tell people about himself. Most of the friends he has met online are out of high school. He likes to be intellectually challenged. I do think people have teased him because of his brain and being so smart. He also likes to do alot of work independently which I think makes the others made because then they have to try and figure things out on their own and they don't like that.

My son turned 16 today (March 13th)!!

Oh I did find out that my daughter would love to have Brandon in some of her classes. So I guess that means she wouldn't be to upset if they were in the same grade. They almost had Honors Chemistry together this year, that is if my daughter had taken that class.

[babylupin]

Nutz, that's awesome that your Daughter is okay with having her brother in the same year. That's really good of her!

You should be really proud of having such a down to earth pair of children.