Girl can't graduate because she doesn't want to drop her A.P. Biology class in favor of P.E...?!

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
i nmy school, you can get CPR certified in place of a PE credit. paid $35 for a 4 hour course, and saved mysef months of a worthless class

PE isn't exactly worthless, if nothing else it forces kids to exercise instead of sitting around getting fat.

 

[imported_Mike]

I bet the principle folds after national attention.

 

[aplefka]

I'm in the same boat, sorta. I got really sick in February so I had to drop my weightlifting class and now it's gonna be hell to try to take a PE class and fit in the rest of my classes as well to get the requirement.

 

[scsi drv1]

I can say as someone not to far removed from high school that this chick is officially the laziest person on the face of this earth. I understand that Biology is important but for all you people who dont know about A.P. Biology in high, it sucks up way to much time and is usually full or really ugly people who are either part of the school band and barely work out besides lifting a twinkie to their lips or ugly girls who one day want to take revenge on the world in by becoming doctors and giving us all some random from of ebola through a sick method of cross pollenation. MAKE HER ASS RUN SOME DAMN LAPS IS YOU ASK ME!

 

[Metron]

Originally posted by: oogabooga
- She is a transfer student
- At her old school she was exempt, and assumed she was here as well
- the school caught on to this mistake late (her senior year)
- she refused to adjust her classes to TAKE the class which was REQUIRED to graduate
- the class cannot be taken another time, save another year at HS. (no summer school)
- already accepted into college
- college knows, doesn't care, told her to get her GED
- She's getting it next month

in the end, it works out, but she doesn't get to graduate because she petitioned to late for this change. She basically decided NOT to take the class and to petition afterwards, and it doesn't really work like that. Plus she's lettered in 3 sports, how hard could this 'wellness' class be? She chose her course of action, and while it sucks and i am sympathetic to the fact she doesn't get to talk, she chose her outcome.

I don't see anything wrong with her course of action, and I commend her for taking the AP courses to help her prepare for the AP tests. I think it's hilarious that she's taking the GED to circumvent the rules, since the administrators / counselors are trying to roadblock an obviously motivated student.

In the end, she'll get her GED, she'll have taken the AP courses to prepare for the placement exams, she'll be accepted into college, and she'll do well on the AP exams. She'll probably enter college nearly a sophomore... making the high school administrators look like the idiots they are.

Metron

 

[ggavinmoss]

I took tons of AP classes and to make room for that in my schedule I took PE before school for two years. I'm all for doing away with zero tolerance, but she is likely not making all efforts to have her cake and eat it too...

-geoff

 

[2cpuminimum]

1. PE is stupid, and a waste of time, and a waste of public money, they shouldn't even require it in school.
2. She'll get more out of ap bio than she would out of getting PE and a HS diploma. There's nothing wrong with a GED, and it will look more impressive to colleges that she took the extra AP class and passed the GED than it would to have a diploma from that school.

 

[Deeko]

She's hardly "sticking it to the high school". The high school is WINNING this battle if she drops out and gets her GED. Don't you understand that? They aren't trying to make her fail at life, they are saying to graduate from that school, you have to do certain things.