I have a daughter who is a senior in high school and was enrolled in the state of Alaska. My husband is military and we relocated to the state of Georgia. Since the states have different requirements my daughter will not be able to graduate this year. Most of her classes didn't transfer with her. She performed exceptionally well in all her classes (A B student), Some honors classes. Worked very hard to keep her grades up. She is a very talented child caught up some state requirement loop. No one seems to have anything to tell her about why she is not going to be graduating. All we hear is it is state requirements and no alternative to the problem. If you or anyone you know has experienced this with their child, please write and tell me if you've found a solution.
2007-03-28 06:04:06 · 4 answers · asked by sandibrks 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Primary & Secondary Education
I don't have a solution, wish I did. My father was also military and we moved around quite a bit. The same thing was going to happen to me, but I was fortunate my family let me stay behind with relatives to finish my senior year. I joined them after graduation. I think your idea is a very good one and maybe we should try to get that pushed through. It just makes sense for requirements to be national because our whole world is more transient now. Also, I can remember studying much harder when we lived up north than when we lived in the south. Maybe you can take it to the school board and work something out. Good Luck.!
2007-03-28 06:14:14 · answer #1 · answered by Sherry K 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Most of her classes didn't transfer"? Math, science, social studies, history, government, health and the like didn't transfer? Unless you were in Alaska taking so-called non-creditable electives, all of those classes would transfer (assuming your daughter attended an accredited school, that is). It could be, for example, that Alaska's math requirement is less demanding than Georgia's and she doesn't have the right number of the core/required classes.
That said, Alaska requires 21 credits and Georgia requires 22. FWIW, my district requires 26.)
But just as importantly as anything else, what do you want Georgia to do? Apply Alaska's standards?
2007-03-28 06:50:52 · answer #2 · answered by Sgt Pepper 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I am not sure of a situation like this myself but it does sound like you need to talk to superintendant and if not him then someone higher and find out where to go from there.
It seems to me there should be a national requirement for every state on what's needed to graduate. Makes alot of sense.
Only other thing I can think of is find out online who your local state and federal senators are and tell them this issue and let them know you'd like to see this made a national requirement and makes sense to do so.
Seems like requirements for children from primary school on up should be all the same nationwide actually in my opinion. No reason to think it can't be organized in that fashion.
2007-03-28 10:41:03 · answer #3 · answered by dmh7593 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
see thats bs i mean no offense but thats what is probably going to happen to me but the opposite i will be extra credits i think if you move you should go with the lowest requirements of one of her highschools send her back have her live with a friend. I'd rather do that for my child that worked so hard. or fight with the school she curently attends fight hard-and good luck
2007-03-28 06:14:40 · answer #4 · answered by Britanie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋