RollinsFan44
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Post by RollinsFan44 on May 28, 2014 5:30:56 GMT -5
If I had a child, I'd tell the teachers where to go if they tried stopping them go their graduation ceremony!
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Post by PJ on May 28, 2014 5:38:36 GMT -5
Did I? No. But my daughter has to do it every year as part of the honors/Principle's list. Interesting how it's only a requirement for honors or principal's (with an "a" by the way) program. Every student at my school had to do 200 hours to graduate. That's what happens when you get old and can't read the text on the phone screen and you have a phone that auto corrects wrong. God knows how many times it changes words like "but" to "bit" or better yet "you" to "ypu". I think with "you" the first time I sent a text to my wife my giant finger hit the p button and now for so strange reason every time it type you I need to remember go back and correct it before I send or create a post or text. I guess I am adding principal to the list.
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Post by BØRNS on May 28, 2014 6:14:54 GMT -5
Interesting how it's only a requirement for honors or principal's (with an "a" by the way) program. Every student at my school had to do 200 hours to graduate. That's what happens when you get old and can't read the text on the phone screen and you have a phone that auto corrects wrong. God knows how many times it changes words like "but" to "bit" or better yet "you" to "ypu". I think with "you" the first time I sent a text to my wife my giant finger hit the p button and now for so strange reason every time it type you I need to remember go back and correct it before I send or create a post or text. I guess I am adding principal to the list. Haha, no worries. I always remember it like "your principal is your pal". But I'm genuinely curious why community service hours are required for a special honors program - when community service has nothing to do with grades. We all did 200 hours whether you had straight A's or straight C's. It just seems even weirder to me to reserve this requirement for students who get "good grades". Do you know why it's a requirement for your daughter?
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2014 10:08:33 GMT -5
The only community service i did in high school was court ordered lol
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Post by InKeD on May 29, 2014 10:19:40 GMT -5
We had something like this in my school for one of the classes my senior year. However, it was one of a few options for somewhat of a final project so it wasn't mandatory. I can't remember exactly how many hours, but I never actually did it anyways, I just got someone to sign off I did x amount of hours. Lol
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Post by JC Motors on May 29, 2014 11:14:46 GMT -5
I had to do community service in order to graduate
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Post by Halloween King on May 30, 2014 1:24:18 GMT -5
Even more High School silliness in a Chicago Suburb. www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-ridgewood-high-school-diplomas-caps-20140529,0,7417991.story This school decided to withhold diplomas from it's students because the kids threw their caps up in the air at the end of the graduation ceremony. The school administrators came out and said the only way these students could obtain their diplomas, which the students EARNED, was if said students apologized publicly for having thrown their caps in the air. Now though the school administrators have realized the error in their ways and have stated they will be giving every one their diplomas. Of course though the article goes on to say Students who have not received their diplomas by a certain date should contact the school for help. I read these stories and think, why? Why be such jerks to kids? Why make a child work for free in order to graduate? I thought school was meant to be a place to educate students, not force them to work. Also why crush a student's special moment? These kids completed high school, they are happy. The end of high school signals the beginning of your adult life, of course these kids will want to celebrate. Why punish these children for being joyous? Those kids surely had to pay money for those caps and gowns, so who is a school administrator to tell a student what they can and cant do with the students property? Im glad the school will be giving out the diplomas but all they've done is complicate what should have been easy. I take this second story to heart because I too was denied of my graduation ceremony. In high school I had a few choice words with my senior year english teacher and was denied participation in the graduation ceremony. This was a teacher who had issues. My senior year english teacher would tell me, often and in front of class, "you're not going to pass this class, why do you even come?" I had a meeting with this teacher and the school dean in which the teacher told me I was never going to amount to anything and that I would always have a McJob. I was switched to another teacher and passed my classes and graduated, but since I didnt hold my tongue I was denied my ceremony. What really messed me up though was that since I wasnt at the ceremony that was taken as I didn't graduate. It took about 2 years to clear up the issue before they mailed me my diploma. So when I read this in the article, Students who do not receive their diplomas by June 4 should contact the school, the note states. Calls to the school were not immediately returned.it just reminded me of the nightmare that it was for me dealing with school administrators. I feel the pain these kids in this second story are going through.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2014 23:57:35 GMT -5
They said we "had too" yet I graduated without doing so.
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Post by BØRNS on Jun 11, 2014 1:51:33 GMT -5
Interesting how it's only a requirement for honors or principal's (with an "a" by the way) program. Every student at my school had to do 200 hours to graduate. That's what happens when you get old and can't read the text on the phone screen and you have a phone that auto corrects wrong. God knows how many times it changes words like "but" to "bit" or better yet "you" to "ypu". I think with "you" the first time I sent a text to my wife my giant finger hit the p button and now for so strange reason every time it type you I need to remember go back and correct it before I send or create a post or text. I guess I am adding principal to the list. Haha, no worries. I always remember it like "your principal is your pal". But I'm genuinely curious why community service hours are required for a special honors program - when community service has nothing to do with grades. We all did 200 hours whether you had straight A's or straight C's. It just seems even weirder to me to reserve this requirement for students who get "good grades". Do you know why it's a requirement for your daughter?
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