State graduation requirements

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<p>Don’t I know it. ^_^</p>

<p>I’ve thought about this a lot, and I’ll probably send my kids to year-round school. Summer is always nice towards the beginning, but every year towards August I get REALLY bored and start wishing for school to start up again.</p>

<p>Also, I think you’re right about the low expectations. My parents always told us to do the best we could and they’d be proud of us. Thus, when I came home with a C in Algebra 2 last year, they weren’t mad at me because they knew that I was reallllllly trying and just could not achieve a B in that class.</p>

<p>I just think it’s a very thin line between supporting (which you seem rather good at, might I add…you actually remind me quite a bit of my own parents) and pushing kids to the breaking point.</p>

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<p>Sarahsmom42: Math, Science, English sound okay but how about just social studies instead of history? History is important but it’s not everything and I’d much rather take 2 years of it and then take something like Psychology of Economics</p>

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<p>Emerald: We were fed BS at D’s school that all the hoops the kids have to jump through with their project were in fact required by the state! Looks like we have a case of overzealous school district which is trying too hard to adhere to the state guidelines. I saw the the multiple forms D had to turn in one by one last spring, and it made me mad. I’m sure there was a consultant or two involved in the design of all of this paperwork!</p>