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Ha, she's getting over. Good for her.
if she is so damn smart, she should've caught this by now. she could've dropped chorus as well.
Skipped Gym Class Costs Student Diploma
LAST UPDATE: 5/9/2005 6:59:10 AM
Posted By: Gabe Redondo
BOW, N.H. - A decision to take Advanced Placement biology instead of gym will cost a Bow High School senior her diploma, but it won't keep her from going to college in the fall.
Though Isabel Gottlieb is a good student, a trumpet player in the school band and holds varsity letters in three sports, she discovered last fall she was one gym class shy of having enough credits to graduate next month.
She asked for a waiver, but the school wouldn't budge, telling her instead she had to drop a class to take gym.
"Why would I drop an AP biology class to take P.E.?" the 18-year-old said. "It's just not on my priority list."
The missing credit wasn't caught by the school last spring when Gottlieb's schedule was set. The class in question is called BEST, or Building Essential Skills for Tomorrow, and is required for all Bow students to graduate.
At the Seattle high school Gottlieb attended before moving to Bow before her junior year, gym requirements often were waived for students in varsity sports. But those waivers aren't something Bow High School is willing to accept.
"Waivers vary from school to school and they're not standardized at all," said Principal George Edwards.
Gottlieb added the class last year after the school told her she had to take it, but then dropped it when she found out it was too much on top of classes she was already taking, including two Advanced Placement classes and calculus.
Both Gottlieb and her mother said the school suggested dropping either band, chorus, AP biology or calculus. But she and her mother decided sacrificing any of those would have diminished the quality of Gottlieb's education.
"I'm trying to get into college and someone isn't going to want to see someone drop an AP biology class a month into the year in order to pick up P.E.," Gottlieb said.
There will likely be no compromises in time for graduation. The class is not offered in the summer.
And it may not matter. Gottlieb already has been accepted to Trinity College in Hartford, Conn., where she plans to major in biology.
Trinity is aware of Gottlieb's situation and said that as long as she gets her General Educational Development, or GED, in time, there won't be a problem.
Gottlieb said that she already has taken the practice test and, once she hears back on that, will schedule a time to take the official version of the high school equivalency test.
Meanwhile, her mother, Ashley Warner, is planning a "non-graduation" party for her daughter.
"We realized that not graduating wasn't the end of the world," Warner said. "But it took a long time to come to that conclusion."
Ha, she's getting over. Good for her.
she is getting a GED... not necessarily "getting over."
Well, she's going to a good school and she has a bright future and she didn't take the class. I pretty much think that means she's getting over. But you know, thats just me. I actually think she's smart.
it. If a GED is getting her into college more power to her. I wanted to get my GED when I was 16, my father wouldn't sign for me to do so. They weren't offering AP classes back in the day.
I wanted to do the same thing and my mother wouldn't let me. 9 years later, she knows she made the wrong decision.
I'm thinking the lambskin from college pretty much trumps the GED on your average job application.
I was bored with High School. And I don't think it fairly measures how well you are going to do in the future by all the BS testing.
I didn't learn anything in HS I couldn't have learned on my own. It really was extremely boring. My mother didn't do it because she thought I wanted to just work fulltime when I was 16, but I had intentions of going to college while working.
High school really can be boring because the pace is really slow. Learning on the college level can be just as slow and boring, but you at least have the options of learning at your own pace.
I agree. I began working at 16, but didn't start college till I was 22. If I believed everything they told me in High School I probably wouldn't have gone to college period. Yet, here I am 4 years later, a junior in college going 3/4 time and maintaining a 4.0
I agree...if she's going where she wants to go and majoring in what she wants to major in...thenthe high school...
Ha, Pendja or Pendejo?
Damn those kids for trying to get a high-quality education.But she and her mother decided sacrificing any of those would have diminished the quality of Gottlieb's education.
so, you guys learned nothing in high school?
All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten.
I learned cheerleaders were s, some of the football players were gay, you could drink in Mexico all night for $10, and that school was a waste of my time. I ended up joining the "breakfast club" for not going to school half of the time and still graduating. Hmmm....what did I learn?so, you guys learned nothing in high school?
i guess, not a damn thing! haha...
I learned alot of things...so, you guys learned nothing in high school?
That I suck at sports...
That I was a big loser in high school..and still am.
That I had little if no friends in high school, and still don't.
I'll be your friend Duff, if you let me
crazy school ga a went to! small town huh? just drinking and obvioiusly, SCREWING!I'll be your friend Duff, if you let me
I went to school in Houston. Yeah, it is a small town...nothing better to do...
And Yeah I get laid, it is obvious that you don't since you like to point out that I do. Don't worry hun, you'll one day find that man that will sweep you off your feet.
Same here...work/study.
haha...
but that is all you talk about..
And so do most of the men in here. What is the big deal?! If you can't take a joke and be a grown up about it, then don't worry yourself with it. I wasn't addressing you to begin with.
you are the one who took offense to me saying you obviously learned to screw in high school.. chill beeyatch...
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