Is dropping English in a final term in High school okay?

JHS
Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:40:57 +0000

These posts are hysterical! By the time the kid in question fails to take her last trimester of English, she will have already been accepted by one or more colleges. As long as her high school decides she has met the criteria for graduation and gives her a diploma, no college in the world is going to refuse to enroll her (after she has accepted admission and paid the deposit, etc.) because her transcript shows one English-less trimester. (I’m not talking about the NCAA, which I could imagine being independently fussy, because if memory serves that is not how newparent’s daughter rolls.)

Anyway, it’s worth checking with the high school, but hell would freeze over before a competitive private school would deny graduation to a good student because of a curriculum choice in which the school had acquiesced. That doesn’t happen.

I know everyone is well-meaning and all, but the advice on this thread has been sensationally bad. I am one of the biggest fans of literary studies that there is, but I would never make the argument that a marginal high school trimester of English – much less the last one – is indispensible to anyone’s education.