Posted: 4/27/2026 5:23:57 PM EDT
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Been sending emails back and forth and had a meeting at my son's school this morning with a teacher, principal, vice principal, counselor. Neither of us have done anything wrong, we're not in trouble, grades are good. They want to put him in an internship work/study program next year. That's where we have difference of opinion. The jobs are in a bad part of town in a large urban city, and I was told he could work for me at my company, now the school is telling me otherwise. When I ask for specifics about who is blocking me, I don't get specific answers. It was almost like a scene from A Few Good Men. He needs English IV, Government and Financial literacy to get a "distinguished" degree - whatever the hell that means. It's been suggested by others to simply remove him from their control and put him in another program to finish his last year. He gives zero fucks about this school anymore for a variety of reasons we both share. Anyone know what's available? Would there be any consequence of finishing a high school degree online or at home to go to college at some place like Tarelton? |
| Unless you're trying to get him into a prestigious college, have you considered just having him get his GED or equivalency degree and moving on? Anymore that doesn't matter at all unless you're trying for something exceptional, with most establishments falling into the previous description of "prestigious college" being rather shit anymore. |
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Theres absolutely no value in doing anything other than getting a HS dipolma or GED. It simply does not matter at that level. What matters is what you do after, at a job, trade school, or college. The goal should be to graduate with decent grades and forget it otherwise for K-12. Making your children nuts with all this extra horse shit while they are in high school is asinine. Let them be kids. Nobody cares what else they did other than if they graduated!!!! As a parent, your real goal should be to prevent access to the internet without proper oversight, drug use and alcohol use and of course at all costs keep your daughter off instagram. That should be a CHECK BOX on a job application. NO SLUTTY PIX? CHECK! JOB INTERVIEW : Did you get a HS diploma or GED? 18 year old : Yessir! JOB INTERVIEW : CHECK It's become similar for " college graduate ". As that does not matter much either now. |
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I got my GED in 1988 (2 years after the rest of my class graduated high school). My wife also got her GED for high school. We both went through nursing school later and we both got our RN degrees and we both have successful careers. If school is fucking with him consider getting the GED. |
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There is the option of online school. When I had my grandson for a couple of years I had to get him out of the IEP his mother put him under, catch him up math, and get back on track for high school. With my son in the Air Force (AFSOC) and being divorced with joint custody, the only option was a accredited online school. I ended up using Keystone and got him back on track. https://www.keystoneschoolonline.com/collections/high-school-courses |
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we signed up our oldest here https://ischoolvirtual.com/ pretty painless, and it did not cost us anything. it wasn't good for her because she couldn't pace herself properly and felt disconnected since it was all online, but I would recommend them in general. but I also agree in that a GED is probably a better choice and is faster. I will also say, that the work study program isn't a mandatory thing. I did it just so I didn't have to take more classes my senior year. I had everything to graduate my junior year except senior english and wasn't allowed to take it during summer school. so I did work study to get out at noon. Just have him take other classes for fun and you won't be in the work study program. |
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Originally Posted By Andrewh: Just have him take other classes for fun and you won't be in the work study program. It's gone a little deeper than that. We had the meeting with the principal, vice principal, teacher, counselor, was told xyz, was told they were going to email the policy to me. I got nothing, no communication. My son was already scheduled to do an after school presentation with his school regarding FIFA coming to town, where he would be on stage and ask questions. He asked me to be there, so I got dressed up and went. I had no idea what it was actually about. He's supposed to be in an agriculture track, they told him to change the word agriculture in his speech to environmental sustainability. It all made sense when I walked in there, this has been turned into an environmental program. He's the only white male on the stage and he's being used. It's started to reek of World Economic Forum agenda, and the admins see money being poured in to do it. I actually work in the agricultural sector. I believe in responsible environmental stewardship, but I have hard limits when you get into this stuff. He doesn't like it either. When I ask him questions about what he's actually learning about a specific subject, he's like they don't actually teach you how to do it. They recently had some sort of 200 question test from Ducks Unlimited to take. They were unprepared. Failed big time. They had to retake the test and were allowed to google the answers. Amazingly, they passed. Between his freshman and sophomore years, sat in on a school wide zoom call with the principal about how bad the test scores were for their school, now, this year, they are A rated? They are pencil whipping the shit out of these kids to bring their scores up. Everyone I talk to about challenging this says to pull him out. |
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Is there a local community college where he can finish up his HS requirements, and also get college credit? I was in HS for 3 years, then my senior year went to the local CC. It's often called dual admittance or such. The CC classes are free if it's part of a set program, and are paid by the school system. It's a great program. Smart kids are usually bored by their senior year of both HS level classes, and all the HS social garbage. You get to take college level classes, that count towards a degree, for free, and it looks great on a resume, that you were in college your senior year. |