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<blockquote data-quote="DammitJanet" data-source="post: 400965" data-attributes="member: 1514"><p>Ya know something MM, my HS did practically the exact same thing to me with the credits and it is why I have my GED instead of a HS diploma. </p><p></p><p>We all know by now that I was a raving difficult child as a teen. I quit school for about 3 weeks or so in 11th grade. One of the few smart things my parents did was tell me that if I was not gonna go to school then I had to work full time. I got a job as a hostess at a restaurant. Well that inhaled badly. I hated it. Didnt last a week before I was begging to go back to school...lol. Problem was my mother decided to send me to a school for "problem teenagers." Problem 2. This school was a farce. It wasnt accredited and it was just a small place with maybe 25 kids and 5 teachers...3 of whom were male and at least one of them liked to fondle the girlies. I got easy A's! The place was a joke...we all smoked pot and cigarettes in the courtyard for goodness sakes! </p><p></p><p>Well, the place got closed down during the summer after I finished up my junior year there. I started back at my old HS for my senior year. About November of that year, after we had all taken the very first senior graduation tests ever done in VA, well...they discovered that my "credits" from that school werent acceptable. Basically the main thing that would cause the biggest problem was my English class. I was taking Senior English...or what they now call English 4, and I was passing it with an A, but according to these new records...I needed to retake Jr. English and there wasnt time to do it. I couldnt take it at the same time as Sr English or clep it or anything like that either. One couldnt put their thinking caps on and say...oh if she can pass Sr English with an A, then she can probably pass Jr English...sigh. And back then...you took things for an entire year...not just a semester!</p><p></p><p>So...in order to graduate...I would have had to go back to school for one class for a whole year. No way. I finished up the rest of my year...which I thought I was pretty nice to do when I could have quit anytime I wanted to considering I turned 18 in January of that year, and I got my GED in June. Probably should have quit sooner. Would have saved myself a whole lot of heartache in my life now that I think about it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DammitJanet, post: 400965, member: 1514"] Ya know something MM, my HS did practically the exact same thing to me with the credits and it is why I have my GED instead of a HS diploma. We all know by now that I was a raving difficult child as a teen. I quit school for about 3 weeks or so in 11th grade. One of the few smart things my parents did was tell me that if I was not gonna go to school then I had to work full time. I got a job as a hostess at a restaurant. Well that inhaled badly. I hated it. Didnt last a week before I was begging to go back to school...lol. Problem was my mother decided to send me to a school for "problem teenagers." Problem 2. This school was a farce. It wasnt accredited and it was just a small place with maybe 25 kids and 5 teachers...3 of whom were male and at least one of them liked to fondle the girlies. I got easy A's! The place was a joke...we all smoked pot and cigarettes in the courtyard for goodness sakes! Well, the place got closed down during the summer after I finished up my junior year there. I started back at my old HS for my senior year. About November of that year, after we had all taken the very first senior graduation tests ever done in VA, well...they discovered that my "credits" from that school werent acceptable. Basically the main thing that would cause the biggest problem was my English class. I was taking Senior English...or what they now call English 4, and I was passing it with an A, but according to these new records...I needed to retake Jr. English and there wasnt time to do it. I couldnt take it at the same time as Sr English or clep it or anything like that either. One couldnt put their thinking caps on and say...oh if she can pass Sr English with an A, then she can probably pass Jr English...sigh. And back then...you took things for an entire year...not just a semester! So...in order to graduate...I would have had to go back to school for one class for a whole year. No way. I finished up the rest of my year...which I thought I was pretty nice to do when I could have quit anytime I wanted to considering I turned 18 in January of that year, and I got my GED in June. Probably should have quit sooner. Would have saved myself a whole lot of heartache in my life now that I think about it. [/QUOTE]
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