Effective July 1, 2009, students not enrolled in a public school who have met all state and local graduation requirements, except for achieving proficiency on the N.C. Reading and/or Mathematics Competency Test and/or the N.C. Computer Skills Test and/or their alternate assessments, are no longer required to meet the competency or computer skills standards and may petition their former high school for a diploma. Prior to petitioning the high school, these affected former students need to come to the Vance County Schools’ Administrative Services Center at 1724 Graham Avenue in Henderson, to get their high school transcript from the Records Department. Students’ petitions to Vance County Schools for diplomas and that meet these requirements will be honored until the deadline of July 1, 2014.
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Is it just me or do you have the same understanding of this 64 word sentence?
“Effective July 1, 2009, students not enrolled in a public school who have met all state and local graduation requirements, except for achieving proficiency on the N.C. Reading and/or Mathematics Competency Test and/or the N.C. Computer Skills Test and/or their alternate assessments, are no longer required to meet the competency or computer skills standards and may petition their former high school for a diploma.”
Using my 9th grade sentence diagramming skills I understand that: high school dropouts who are unable to read or do basic mathematics can get a diploma.
McDonalds and Wal-Mart have a higher employment standard than the high school diploma standard set by the Vance County School Board and its senior administrator.
Will a former student be required to write the petition or just sign a standard form? Then there’s perhaps a problem of finding the building–or will the Superintendent place balloons at the entrance?
This is just my opinion.
In all seriousness–God help our dedicated teachers–putting up with this administration and school board.
Prudence….Maybe Gregory will borrow the clown’s uniform from the guy who jumps up and down at various locations on Dabney Drive.
Prudence thanks for the big chuckle. I think the former “students” needs only to make their mark on the standard form.
Royal rooster is it possible Gregory is the clown guy jumping up and down at various locations on Dabney Drive?
I overheard someone I respect wonder out loud if the board was aware of this plan to raise the high school graduation rate.