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Goodbye grad..

Angus Cattle Shower

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As most of you know, I was in a pretty serious car accident on December 19th, I beleive it was. Before that I had pnemonia and was put in the hospital for a week. I got a phone call from the school yesterday. I'm still at home, I can't sleep even on a couch and the most i've been able to do since the accident was go from the living room to the computer, because i have a possible broken elbow and there is a foreign object imbedded in one of the cuts below my skin that I am waiting for a bone scan for so we know if I need surgery for sure or not. But my gym teacher called and told me because i couldn't do tyhe last two weeks of gym and won't be able to until next fall (in case i need surgery and i need physio still recovery time or whatever the doctor calls it) that I wouldn't be getting the credit for gym (and IA now I guess, because I can't weld) so I won't be graduating with my class. However, I have chosen to not drop out, bu tnext year I will be coming back. I will only be taking 3 morning classes a semester, and i will still have the afternoons off to help on the farm, or go to work early. That way i'll still be a fulltime student, graduate, and have extra credits that could possibly help me out in applying for schools.



I was just kinda miffed, but no sense in getting mad when there isn't anything you can do, just improve, right?
 

balestabber

Well-known member
i have learned to accept the things i cannot change,and PRAY to change the things i cannot accept.i know its difficult but time will come to pass.good luck :)
 
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Anonymous

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ACS--is Gym (PE) a 4 year requirement up there? Only two years down here- and many exemptions can be made because of injury, sickness, or in many cases lifelong handicaps....

When I was on the local school board it was one of my main goals to allow these kids with injuries/handicaps or severe illnesses that came up in the middle of the school year (along with a few that just got the dumbsh*ts in younger years)- to be able to graduate with their class- and worked with the administration to set up alternative classes- as well as home schooling classes- and correspondence and summer classes....Just for the importance of keeping these kids in school- and with the ability to walk with their class...
Anyway- the main importance is to finish it up... But make sure you look into all alternatives.....
 

Angus Cattle Shower

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PE is a two year thing down here, but I thought it was only one year, and so did quite a few other people, but i am the only one in the situation of not graduating because of it. I guess sometimes stuff happens, now i can spread over 3 semesters what everyone else has to take in two. There was no alternative, either pass gym or you don't graduate.

On the positive side, I'll be the oldest guy in the school, haha
 
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