16-05-23

Shawn re his Act grades. .. I didn't know I could do that!

The last Monday of the school year. The last Monday for pulling up their grades for review. Drilled down for any info that might be relevant for this last part, which I am thinking of as "sticking the landing." 

His ACT practice test grades were posted. Part 1 and Part 2. A "B" and a "C." I wish you could have seen him. He leaned over for a closer look. "For real?" And then, standing back up straight, with great, happy surprise, "I didn't know I could do that!" 

His Holocaust grade is a 93, and he said they aren't having any more tests in that class, so he will come home with an A in it. They aren't doing anything else in his mini block, and all of those grades are posted, so he will have a C in it. A couple of his classes have enough missing grades that final grade is hard to determine, but it is looking pretty positive for passing everything, and for having C or above in most, if not everything. He waved his hand at the print out, and my notes, the assessment and predictions and said, with a contentment and quiet pride, "that's the best.... I've never had that." His happiness was a like another person in the room, and getting to see that, to feel that, meant everything to me.