Question for anyone on the board who is in the high school education field. The question is: Can a kid attend a public high school for more than four years to achieve the graduation requirements?
Here is my scenario: My daughter would normally be a high school junior, but due to a bad concussion her freshman year, combined with some anxiety problems, she only completed about 5 classes each of her first two years of high school (instead of 7), and she has failed a couple of classes this past semester. When I look at the overall picture, she is about a semester short of where she "should" be, and making it up in summer school or after-hours is a huge challenge and not a desired solution (for reasons I can't go into). She is actually fine with "repeating her sophomore year", and thus pushing her graduation year out by one.
The school is telling us that the rules are that a child can ONLY attend four years of high-school.
This doesn't make sense to me. It sure appears that what the schools are saying is that if you fall short in four years, then you're kicked out of high school and you have to blaze your own trail to get a GED or something. Seems counter-productive when kids get held back a year quite easily in grades 1-8, yet in high school it seems like zero-tolerance and you can't extend a semester or year.
In additional disclosure, in the above scenario, we just moved from Kansas to Florida and this is what we are told. However, the Florida high school is telling us this is the way it is in all states now.
Any insight from people on here in the know would be appreciated, even if your insight is just Kansas schools and not Florida. Thanks!
Here is my scenario: My daughter would normally be a high school junior, but due to a bad concussion her freshman year, combined with some anxiety problems, she only completed about 5 classes each of her first two years of high school (instead of 7), and she has failed a couple of classes this past semester. When I look at the overall picture, she is about a semester short of where she "should" be, and making it up in summer school or after-hours is a huge challenge and not a desired solution (for reasons I can't go into). She is actually fine with "repeating her sophomore year", and thus pushing her graduation year out by one.
The school is telling us that the rules are that a child can ONLY attend four years of high-school.
This doesn't make sense to me. It sure appears that what the schools are saying is that if you fall short in four years, then you're kicked out of high school and you have to blaze your own trail to get a GED or something. Seems counter-productive when kids get held back a year quite easily in grades 1-8, yet in high school it seems like zero-tolerance and you can't extend a semester or year.
In additional disclosure, in the above scenario, we just moved from Kansas to Florida and this is what we are told. However, the Florida high school is telling us this is the way it is in all states now.
Any insight from people on here in the know would be appreciated, even if your insight is just Kansas schools and not Florida. Thanks!
