Re: high school credit

It doesn't make any sense but in my state at least the laws are
set up to make earning any extra high school credits very hard.
The point of high school for the masses was in its origins in
the Great Depression was to hold kids in school and keep them
out of the job market where they'd compete for the few jobs
there were.

If our Middle Schoolers take two years of a language in Middle
School, our high school will allow them to move to French 2,
Spanish 2 etc but no high school credit is given and two years
of language at the high school are still required. In fact, here
many diligent students go into their senior year with ALL the
credits they need to graduate but the law mandates a 4th year of
Literature that MUST be taken in the 4th year and Cannot be
taken early or in the summer.

Does that make sense??
See Florida for a model program of allowing talented students to
accelerate through their education and even earning college
credits while still secondary students. More states should be
following Florida's lead.

> On 9/22/09, elaine wrote:
>> Does anyone have info about their state's policy on middle
>> school kids earning credit for taking classes in high
>> school? Several of my students take advanced math at the
>> HS; they're only in 7th grade. The HS principal says they
>> are not earning credit, though. Is that normal? I don't
>> think it makes sense....I'd love to hear others' thoughts.
>
> Most places I've heard of do not give high school credit for
> middle school students, even if they are in Algebra 2 or
> Calculus. As long as the high school pays for the students to
> take college classes while they are in high school, it isn't a
> big deal. If the high school can't offer them math at their
> level, and the universities require a certain number of years
> of math in high school, it can cause problems