amaranthe:

/Opinions are like assholes


True thing. Yours just stinks more than most.

English doesnt not matter; get by in life just fine without no English.

I graduated college and never even considered doing the "walk" ritual.

Total waste of time that contributes nothing to my education.

/didn't go to senior prom in HS either, same reason. Lame. Took my GF to a concert instead. Based on what I heard about the prom, we chose wisely.

A lot of these flying around this year, you'd think the media doesn't have anything else to report on or something....

ceconix: Maybe someone here knows how that district allocates credits?

I did. All it took was a quick google search of "Woodland High School, California" It's the first hit.

There's a .pdf of the student handbook available online

5 credits is what a student receives for satisfactorily completing one semester of classes. That's how close to she was to graduating. Some part of second semester senior English. Or one essay assignment.

Meet Us at the Stick: classes

dammit.

I meant she gets 5 credits for completing one semester of one class

Our local school board forgot who they worked for and decided to let a VERY popular elementary school principal go, in short they decided not to renew his contract. The parents were quite angry over this but the school board REFUSED to even listen to any comments on the subject. WELL, when the recall petitions started to circulate and it looked like they were going to voted out they listened....THEY LISTENED HARD! The principal had his contract renewed and the board has a whole new attitude toward the public.

LouDobbsAwaaaay: MBK: I was originally told that I had "Too many English credit hours" and I would have to take another class if I wanted to graduate.

Yes, you read that correctly. I already fulfilled my elective courses, and the required "non-Major" classes (9 hours of Science, 12 hours of History, etc). But, since I took one extra English class, I was told I could not graduate. I would have to either attend summer school or come back in the Fall.

There has got to be more to it than that. What were the additional credits you were told to take supposed to cover?

Nope! We were supposed to have x amount of total credit hours, and I had x+2 (forgot the actual number). I went in to talk to some department head and what she told me was "You are 3 over your allowed English major credits, so those 3 do not count for anything, so in reality, you need 1 more credit hour in order to graduate".

It was a Catch-22 situation. Since I transfered to NIU from Bradley, a few of my English classes didn't count for required credit (for those classes), but they counted for my overall credit hours. So I had to retake classes, just to fulfill requirements of my major. If I didn't retake them, I wouldn't be allowed to graduate due to not fulfilling the reqs. If I had taken them, I wouldn't he allowed to graduate due to too many credit hours!

/is still kinda bitter

thelordofcheese:

CygnusDarius: thelordofcheese: A graduation ceremony was really that important? From a public school in the USA? Wow... I wish that girl would have died of cancer. It seems the experience hasn't taught her about hard work, determination and what's really important. Like we nee another one liike her.
/"You don't know what I've been through!"
//Oh, I know, I just don't care because you're wasting your life
\not saying that fun isn't important
\\just high school

I concur with PortWineBoy...

I disagree with both of you. It's not a troll. It's sincere. We don't need another "entitled" person in this world. Work hard. Suck it up. Builds character.


Hey, douche bag, Ripley's is no doubt on their way to your home at this very instant to document the world's largest douche bag. Be sure to smile pretty for the camera, douche bag.

Did I mention that you're a douche bag, douche bag? Well, douche bag, you are. A douche bag, that is.

Our school had plenty of students (with no excuses... cancer fits as a legitimate reason to be a bit behind on your schoolwork) who were able to walk, even though they had to finish summer school in order to officially graduate. Apparently, having cancer (and taking what will probably amount to a couple weeks of easy summer class) is too much for some Farkers to handle.

Goldeneye007: ours never had the diploma in it, we didn't get ours till 2-3 weeks after the ceremony.

I loved it... we weren't given ours until after the ceremony. We had a little prop to use for our pictures while shaking hands with the admins.

in 1989 when I graduated you got an empty holder on stage. You didn't get your certificate until you went to the school about 60 days later.

People who didn't attend school all year could walk in, walk across stage, get their empty holder.

I think the stopping her of walking with her class deserved the kick in the nuts, but she did need to take a course to finish, no matter what happened to her.

Jolonco: I hate to be a killjoy, but while I sympathize with this poor girl's plight, I realize that a diploma is a standard of education. It does her no service to allow her to graduate if she's not prepared. By all means, let her go through the grad process, stand with her class, announce her name, etc. But the diploma shouldn't come until she's proven that she's worthy of it. If nothing else, for her own sake.

Most -reasonable- people would agree with you. Few people are advocating getting a pass on completing the required coursework.

She only has one opportunity to have a graduation ceremony with her classmates. So she should be given the opportunity to celebrate it with her classmates.

stonicus:

This girl is getting pity charity from everyone, and I find it patronizing and pathetic, a weak empty handed attempt at making themselves feel like good people. Oh no, you got sick, you get to play by different rules now. This is PC run amok, and it's ridiculous.


As big of a hard-ass schmuck as you're representing yourself to be, to your credit you haven't said she should've died from her cancer because of this. So you've got that on thelordofcheese, at least.