Calgary High School Student Spends Time Writing Petitions Rather Than Studying...

[corporatejay]

Originally Posted by Locke

Walking across a stage? Is that what this fight is about? Its 15 seconds of your life that you will completely forget.

Says you old man....it's important to them, it was important to me when I was a kid.

The article cites poor test scores and its ranking as the 4th worst high school in the province. This policy should clean that up, I'm sure it has nothing do with the oversized classes, teaching quality, principal and maybe the last 11 years of education these kids received.

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by Cole436

I don't blame you. I still have nightmares of Sister Dorothy.

Words can't describe my feelings towards that woman

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by corporatejay

Says you old man....it's important to them, it was important to me when I was a kid.

.

I don't think he came out all embittered......

[WinnipegFan]

I am not going to comment on the Beaverbrook event in particular.

However, the idea of graduation is a hot topic at this time of year. Often times students who have not met the requirements to graduate, as set by Alberta Education, get to walk the stage. To me this takes away from the work the students who did graduate have put in. The excuse is always financial, in the way of "Jane Doe's parents already bought a dress." Then we allow the experience of walking and the dinner all of which is a lie as they didn't graduate. The lack of any official policy on this is also often quoted as an excuse for allowing it to happen. I am assuming this is an attempt of a school to counter that. Like anything else it will have growing pains.

[Zarley]

Sounds like a good rule to me. We need to start holding our students to a higher standard.

[Boblobla]

I read the article. I took this

The rule states that students have to achieve at least 50 per cent in all Semester 1 and 2 courses by the time a list of graduating students is posted—usually about three weeks before graduation.

and this

“Sometimes 49% is the best of someone’s ability. School pride is not for the few, it is for everyone, especially on their graduation day!”

to mean it was average, not on one class. Even the above quote doesn't make sense. I struggle to believe that the people who would be walking across the stage would be 'the few'.

Hopefully the few cases like Ken described above get looked at but I really can't see that being a systemic problem.

Meh, I don't really care who walks across the stage, I just found the whole article a little ridiculous.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by Zarley

Sounds like a good rule to me. We need to start holding our students to a higher standard.

Did you miss the Can't Award Zero's thread????

[Dion]

Originally Posted by ken0042

^^ Exactly. A friend of mine has a kid going there. In the 1st semester she took a course outside of her comfort zone in an effort to challenge herself. She failed the course, and now may not be able to walk the stage to get her diploma.

I did something similar by taking math 30. It didn't take very long for me to realise I was in over my head and dropped the course. Mind you we didn't have that idiotic rule they have now.

[Dion]

Originally Posted by Zarley

Sounds like a good rule to me. We need to start holding our students to a higher standard.

If the student has more than enough credits to graduate why should it matter if they failed a course?

[Minnie]

Back when the earth's crust was still cooling and I graduated from high school, you walked the stage even if you didn't have enough credits to graduate. They just handed you a fake scroll - and at the end of the year, it was up to you to get your poop together and either hit summer school or enroll for another semester to get the credits. You could opt out of walking if you wanted, but they let everyone walk.

I think this principal is kind of dooshy. If they've got the required credits and such, they should be able to walk the stage, if that's what they want. When my oldest graduated, you didn't walk if you were failing out of everything or didn't have the required credits, which I don't have a problem with. This principal is just cherry picking and sounds like he's on a power trip more than anything.

[kootenayguy9]

You don't know if a student graduates until August for the most part. Students can be on track to graduate, walk the stage then don't grad because they missed their diplomas etc. In September I usually will look at all our grads transcripts to see if they actually graduated, if they didn't we just usually take away their picture from the grad composite even though they had their grad pics taken. Should we be moving to a system of high school completion? BTW one of our students at my high school is a grad from Beaverbrook because she didn't actually graduate and ended up 10 credits short.

[Barbecue]

I don't think the thread starter has read the whole article through. Funny that he threw in a head shaking gif there, when he couldn't read

Anyways, i think it's a ###### thing to do too. When i was back in highschool, i had all of the grade and credits to graduate and make it to post secondary. I figured i might as well get a head start give calculus a try and took Math 31 in the last semester. I bombed in it and ended up failing that course. By this Principal's rule, i wouldnt have been eligible to go on stage to get my diploma

Really ridiculous. I hope at least half the students and parents boo this principal when he first steps on the stage

[saskflames69]

I'm doing relatively well in all my classes this year so I don't need to worry about not graduating, but geez, would that suck if they did that to me. The principal needs to lighten up and not be such a hardass.

If I was in this guy's situation I'd be pretty pissed off too.

[kirant]

Originally Posted by saskflames69

I'm doing relatively well in all my classes this year so I don't need to worry about not graduating, but geez, would that suck if they did that to me. The principal needs to lighten up and not be such a hardass.

If I was in this guy's situation I'd be pretty pissed off too.

To be fair to the man...when he addressed the graduating class in my last year at Queen Elizabeth, he looked like a soulless Putin. I assume not being a hardass isn't possible.

[Super-Rye]

Originally Posted by btimbit

Words can't describe my feelings towards that woman

Haha she didn't care for me very much, but that's ok. I dodged everyone of my classes with her to go play cards.

[Mean Mr. Mustard]

Originally Posted by btimbit

Words can't describe my feelings towards that woman

You were on the honour roll, I am sure that you could think of some words to describe your feelings. After all, what else would you use, grunts and posturing?

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard

You were on the honour roll, I am sure that you could think of some words to describe your feelings. After all, what else would you use, grunts and posturing?

No words that wouldn't get me banned then

[Cole436]

Originally Posted by Mean Mr. Mustard

You were on the honour roll, I am sure that you could think of some words to describe your feelings. After all, what else would you use, grunts and posturing?

I can back up btimbit here. The less said, the better.

[Rathji]

Originally Posted by saskflames69

I'm doing relatively well in all my classes this year so I don't need to worry about not graduating, but geez, would that suck if they did that to me. The principal needs to lighten up and not be such a hardass.

If I was in this guy's situation I'd be pretty pissed off too.

Dude, you're like 45 years old. Stop checking out high school girls.

[Barbecue]

Originally Posted by Boblobla

I read the article. I took this



and this



to mean it was average, not on one class. Even the above quote doesn't make sense. I struggle to believe that the people who would be walking across the stage would be 'the few'.

Hopefully the few cases like Ken described above get looked at but I really can't see that being a systemic problem.

Meh, I don't really care who walks across the stage, I just found the whole article a little ridiculous.

Immediately after the stuff you quoted was this

The new policy means even students who meet the requirements to graduate could still be banned from participating in the ceremony if they failed a class.

and this

only to be denied the right to attend our own graduation ceremony for failing ANY class in our final year.

Note the singular in "class" and the use of "a" and "any". There wasn't a plurality or average to it