My High School Dilemma

happymomof1
Mon, 17 Sep 2018 02:15:55 +0000

You and your parents need to verify what the state regulations are about placing students, and what the school district regulations are. In some schools, guidance counselors are absolutely obligated to place students with international records by age. Even when they aren’t required to do that, they still can be under tremendous pressure from state funding agencies to graduate students with their age cohort whenever possible. All that said, in most states, schools are obligated to allow students to remain enrolled until they complete the full state graduation requirements or the end of the school year in which they turn 21. Please note that meeting the full state graduation requirement means just that, and nothing extra like AP or honors courses.

If you are carrying an academic overload relative to other students at your high achool, you need to find out why the school chose that option instead of requiring summer school, or arranging for you to finish up a semester or year later. You also need to find out which of your foreign classes transferred and as what. There may be other ways of interpreting those records that could result in better scheduling for you at your current high school.