Teens Can Plan For Success
This week at my kid’s high school they are selecting their schedule of courses. Not to mention, I watched Waiting For Superman, a movie about the school system and how inaffective it is for supporting the majority of students in their journey to personal successful learning.
I fight the battle of motivating my kids to be challenged, to figure out ways around boundaries and to stay positively motivated to do their heart’s desire.
But it’s been hard. I’ve had to teach them to fight for their education as well.
IF YOU ARE SERVED APPLES but you want ORANGES
My 9th grader is an acceptional student. She always scores high on test and with me fighting for her she was placed in the Gifted and Talented courses. But she wants more.
AP courses were offered to her this year, but I think outside of the box in everything and I wanted her to forego AP courses and just go direct to Community College to take some of her classes – and I found out from taking my daughter to the counselor at the community college that she could take classes at the community college that could go towards her High School diploma while giving her credit for her degree!
So we asked her High School Counselor to approve my daughter’s registration. The woman told me “I don’t know why you would want to waste your money on that when she can just take AP classes”
DON’t LET ‘NO’ stop YOU! FIND A WORK AROUND
I couldn’t believe the woman was discouraging me in supporting my daughter with MY MONEY. Had I not known that it was possible to send a student in this direction (I had done the exact same thing for my son – and had to fight even harder to do so) then I would have just agreed with the woman.
BUT I will take a “No” and create my own “Yes”
TEENS HAVE POWER
One thing I told my daughter when we left was, “You can do or be anything, and that is a lesson that the road won’t always be easy. You always need to look for your detors.”
HOW HAVE YOU as a young person TURNED a ‘NO’ into a ‘YES’ by not giving up?
