seashoreCM
All around nice guy.
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- Aug 25, 2001
Should children of families affected by fire, flood, hurricane, etc. be permitted to re-arrange their school schedule to avoid the combined stress of living through the disaster and its aftermath and also having to catch up on school work missed?
Ideas include dropping some courses and making those up in the following summer. Or have pass-fail grading. Or sitting out the rest of the academic year, participate in community service, and resume school the next year, graduating a year later than planned. It would be nice to be able to get three A's in the current year and two A's in the summer as opposed to five C's.
Would college admissions departments go along with this, particularly if a high schooler did a comprehensive community service project?
And the kicker (no pun intended): still being able to still participate in school activities, football, etc. if they did not drop out for the entire balance of the year.
Ideas include dropping some courses and making those up in the following summer. Or have pass-fail grading. Or sitting out the rest of the academic year, participate in community service, and resume school the next year, graduating a year later than planned. It would be nice to be able to get three A's in the current year and two A's in the summer as opposed to five C's.
Would college admissions departments go along with this, particularly if a high schooler did a comprehensive community service project?
And the kicker (no pun intended): still being able to still participate in school activities, football, etc. if they did not drop out for the entire balance of the year.
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