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DS left for one of his summer trips this morning. It is also a "school" trip run by one of his teachers. I Don't want to put more detail in a public post. But it sounds awesome and I want to go. What both of us worry is he is fairly introverted and 10 days is a long time for him to be forced to socialize with the same kids. On the other hand I LOVE the teacher he is traveling and consider him one of the best at his school.

I looked it up and AP test are our mid July I believe. DS took the SAT for the first time & it comes out next week. He took the Math Subject test last year and did extremely well. Well enough he was getting mail from top schools. We didn't have him take anymore this spring because a) None of the schools he's looking at care about SAT Subject tests b) He was totally tested out by June. In May he took the SAT, AP's and the states standardized tests which he had to do half of as a make-up because we flew him out to his sisters college graduation.

It's crazy that CA has decided that only the H.S. juniors need to take the standardized tests. Since they are the ones taking SAT, AP, etc. There was so much testing in May, there was so little time to learn anything new.

Our state has the juniors take the ACT, our school has sophomores take the PSAT, and I think the freshmen now have a test, something along the lines of a Common Core assessment.

We are still fighting elementary school battles, so, a long way to go. But, I was just expressing the same sentiment as the title of your post. I even joked to my family that I deserved a gold medal for surviving this year - it has been a burnout inducing year for me. But, it seems that I have survived this one!

bluemagic, hope your son has a good trip.

I thought of this thread today when I realized our whole family is happier now that the school year is over. It was our toughest year yet, but that may have been built on several years of poor education fit building up. I can see clearly now what I should have done years ago, but not 100% sure what to do for next year.

Gosh, am I being overly negative that instead of being relieved, I'm already worried about next year?

We're meeting the principal in a few days to plan ahead a bit for DS6 for next year, and I'm so nervous about it. DS6's teacher is terrific this year and after hearing/reading horror stories about some teachers, I'm really concerned as to what next year could look like.

I wasn't in any hurry to see the end of this school year because I knew he was in good hands.