that... is... insane!

lol... that's just mad...

why is this news? this kind of stuff has been standard all over the country for longer than I've ever been around

well i feel nothing for her. she had to have known it was a required class.

Thats what I'm asking myself.

She's a senior, taking AP classes, and she still doesn't know her graduation requirements?

My high school would grant waivers for everything; you could get out of taking PE if you were in marching band. But they wouldn't grant any to seniors... I guess they figured if you wanted to take all AP classes to get into a good school you'd be smart enough to plan ahead.


(When I was in school AP Bio was for sophomores- she's just a slacker! Now get off my lawn!)

It's a blog, not CNN.

i never took a day of p.e in my whole high school career.
sounds like she need to transfer to a state with lower standards.

i knew arizona was good for something.
but at least i never had to take any of thoese creepy public high school showers.

that's government schools for yah

True.

i've got a way to get out of gym class. it's called "get mono". it worked for me.

If she knew it was a requirement, she should have scheduled it in. I took gym, and I still had room for my AP classes. I have no pity.

She can't skate through college without taking crappy, required gen-eds either.

I know the point is that she played sports and shouldn't have had to take gym, but that's something that should have been addressed (and approved) LONG before graduation day.

While I agree with what's said about faulting her for not knowing her graduation requirements, I do have to wonder, where the hell was her advisor/guidance counselor when she was doing her schedule? Hell, our system was set up so that you had to first fill in classes that would cover your required classes at the time and then you put in the extra stuff. For example, if you didn't schedule PE your freshman year, it would raise a red flag and your advisor would contact you about it. If there was a good reason for not having such a class, your advisor had to sign off on it.

So while I place most of the blame on her, this sounds like the kind of school system that lets people fall thru the cracks.

Ahh, the joys of the one-size-fits-all school system. So very irritating. One shouldn't HAVE to "play the game" to graduate.

Well, you know what? That's the way things work sometimes. It's not about what should/shouldn't be, it's about what IS.