Pen-pal mail received (Dallas, Odessa, Bowie: credit, houses, to buy)

[evo25]

Hi all,
I was just wanting to check if anyone knows if there is a pen-pal exchange taking place at Bowie Junior High in Odessa.
My son is 15 and has receieved pen-pal letter from a 15 year old girl from Bowie Junior, but I don't know how she got his details and neither does he. We live in Dundee in Scotland.
In the letter she asks for his email address but I'm just a bit skeptical.
Any response would be much apppreciated.
Thanks

I have posted this in Dallas and Texas forums and was advised to post here.

[Eastender67]

Originally Posted by evo25

Hi all,
I was just wanting to check if anyone knows if there is a pen-pal exchange taking place at Bowie Junior High in Odessa.
My son is 15 and has receieved pen-pal letter from a 15 year old girl from Bowie Junior, but I don't know how she got his details and neither does he. We live in Dundee in Scotland.
In the letter she asks for his email address but I'm just a bit skeptical.
Any response would be much apppreciated.
Thanks

I have posted this in Dallas and Texas forums and was advised to post here.

I certainly would NOT give out that email address. I keep one email address solely for email between me and my family. Your son can easily set up as many additional email accounts as he wants using Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL, Gmail, and a lot of other accounts available. They're FREE and only take a few minutes to set up. When you begin to get too much SPAM, dispose of them and take out a new one. Chances are that the email from that girl is legitimate but you never can tell. She might correspond with your son for a while and then ask him for money to buy a plane ticket to Scotland while "she's" actually in Nigeria.

[evo25]

Thanks Easternder67, will ask him to ignore it.
Better safe than sorry.

[tstone]

15 year old in Junior high school???

I was a sophomore in high school at that age. I turned 16 at the end of that school year.

Something's up.

[evo25]

thanks tstone

[Eastender67]

Originally Posted by evo25

Thanks Easternder67, will ask him to ignore it.
Better safe than sorry.

Must be a nice kid you have. My son would have told me nothing, already emailed "her" back and probably made plans to bring her from Texas to Scotland.

(My maternal ancestors were from Scotland [Freuchie, Fife and Loch Linnhe]. Scotland > Ireland (Ulster Plantation) > Pennsylvania, early 1700's.)

[evo25]

He is a nice kid, and thankfully not a very good liar.
Someone also mentioned that at 15 they might not be in Junior High.

Fife is just across the River Tay from where I live, although I do tend to get lost when I leave Dundee. Could end up anywhere when I drive.

[lonestar2007]

Tstone's right in that 15 in junior is questionable, there are explantions for this. She might be a late bloomer, could have failed a grade, then the way the grades are structered come into play also. While 9th grade is considered high school and your credits begin at that time, some high schools are 3 year schools, meaning the 9th grade is located in the junior high building although it is still a high school grade. This is, or used to be, rather common in smaller towns and I believe Bowie is small. This would have her at age 18 (depending on birthday) at graduation which is a pretty normal age. Why don't you google an address for the school and contact them and ask? They will be able to tell you if one of their teachers has a class involved in this or not. If so, I would ask them how they managed to have information about your son.

[TexaCo Mom]

According to C-D data, Bowie Jr. High houses grades 7-9. She could possibly be legitimate at 15. However my own daughter is 15 and a sophomore in high school and her birthday falls rather late compared to the rest of her same-grade friends who are already 16. The penpal could either have a really early birthday that falls somewhere after the Sept. 1st cut off or may have been retained a grade somewhere along the way.

http://www.city-data.com/school/bowi...school-tx.html