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Wiley Update #2: Continues to improve; walked from the front yard to the back yard for the first time in two weeks late last night. Got up(!) and walked out to the kitchen as I was making lunch for the boys’ trip kayaking on the Grand River today. Got up(!) and walked outside to say hello when the wet grumpy tired boys arrived home after the kayak trip. There were a few times today I watched him walking and couldn’t really tell he was limping. Steroids finally having an effect? Don’t know. At this point we will take what we can get!
Must tip my hat to our vet; she has asked that we call her every morning even though she was off Friday and obviously today. Sent the refill for the steroid to rite-aid instead of the vet practice; the medicine was basically 1/4 of the initial cost (he is on a human steroid)! Tomorrow he won’t be getting the steroid…she doesn’t want to overload his system with it. So will continue to hope for more improvement. Still a long way from a car ride……
Advanced Placement: So, how did he do?
Lit: He thought he would get at least a 4; got a 4. Placed out of freshmen English.
Government: Thought he would get a 5. Was willing to bet large amounts of money on it. Got the 5.
Human Geography: The most important of the tests because it gets him out of a science at NEU. Pretty confident he did well here too after the test. Got the 5.
European History: Not as confident here after the test; think his aptitude for history and the social sciences helped him here. Got the 4.
Macroeconomics: Was always the subject he self studied for last and certainly the one he studied the least. And it showed. Got a 2 (a two!….#shameful!)
So, Kevin enters college as basically a sophomore, 28 credits earned towards his major. And with his….oh wait, I didn’t talk about this did I? How did I not talk about this!
Kevin, shortly after school ended, went out and took the online German placement test. We, as a family, had some long talks about what to do here. Better to not do well on the test and take the GRMN over and get good grades? Better to do your best, study a lot beforehand, and show what you can do?
We decided on just take the dang test, don’t study, and you get what you get.
What you get is placing out of the complete foreign language requirement….Kevin placed into junior-year German and doesn’t even have to take that if he doesn’t want to. Which led to another family discussion; better to keep taking German and become very proficient? better to start another language?
As of now, he’s enrolled in GRMN 3101….we decided better to expert in one than so-so in two. The online reviews of the German class and professor make it sound very daunting….again, does Kevin want to get caught up in something super hard when it doesn’t count towards graduation? He can always drop I guess….and we’d like to think the rest of the freshman courses are relatively easy so might as well go for the harder one.
Speaking of freshman classes; Kevin has, strangely enough, placed out of the Math 2 requirement due to AP Stats but not Math 1…he has to take what will be a very easy math class at some point. Hindsight says we should have had him take the AP Calc test even though he was only signed up for Calc, not AP Calc, at school. He probably could have done more than well enough to place out of that.
Anyway, Kevin ends high school as an AP Scholar with Distinction. If that Econ was a 4 instead of a 2 he would have been a National AP Scholar. There is nothing to these names other than the name itself.
