high school girl doesn't get to be valedictorian

[nate2512]

Originally Posted by Senusret I

I had to "take" the "Office Ass't" class as well -- they gave that to kids with either incomplete schedules or when your required courses were full. Example: You're supposed to take World History as a Sophomore, but because there were only two sections offered and they were both full, my counselor knew I'd get priority if I waited until my senior year to take it. Plus she knew I'd find it to feel more like an easy elective than a required class.

Oh, mine weren't for credit, if you were an athlete, due to your athletic p.e. being the last hour of the day, you were forced to stay. There was nothing left worth taking, except being stuck in classes with bitchy freshman girls all day, so I took those. The only time I ever actually did anything was on discipline day, we would harass the kids in trouble.

[epchick]

Nate and Sensuret, you guys are lucky you were allowed to take that type of class. At my HS they were called "outs" because you were out of a class. They were normally given during senior year, because that is when you have less classes that you are required to take. My bitch of a counselor decided that I couldn't have any outs. Why I don't understand, we had 7 class periods and I only had 4 classes. My friends all got outs b/c they had different counselors but us that were lucky enough to have our last names @ the beginning of the alphabet got stuck with Bitchy McBitcherson.

Lucky I was able to get 2 teachers to make up some bullshit class that isn't TECHNICALLY an "out" but it would work that way. And then I took home ec (which was taught by the football coach).

[AGDee]

Well, back in MY day, high school was 10th, 11th, and 12th grade. We really only had to take 6, 5 and then 4 hours to have enough credits to graduate so a lot of people did that. I did take 5 hours my senior year because I wanted to take another year of Spanish. We could take up to 6, but how many kids, if given a choice of going home at 1 pm or 3 pm would choose to go home at 3 pm? I was an oddball for having 5 hours my senior year.

I didn't particularly like high school... although I was very active. Candy Striping, Spanish Club, Honor Society and working about 20 hours a week. (I was also a Girl Scout but didn't admit that to many people!)

Also, once we turned 18, during our senior year, we could call ourselves in sick. That was an amazing thing at the time! Smoking was also allowed once you turned 18, in the designated smoking courtyards. Yes, times have changed a lot.