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[carbonbased]

Anyone remember that Genesis game 'Zero Tolerance'?

Damn good game.

I like to think that the principal of his school is also a member of GA.

:lol :lol

 

[pollo]

I like to think that the principal of his school is also a member of GA.

hahahaha.
Wouldnt suprise me in the least bit. Yall are a bunch of vindictive fuckas.

 

[Willco]

I want to say that this very exact thing happened to me during high school. The only reason we knew of the double class was that eventually, a notification was sent home that said I had a "D" and was in danger of failing the class. That pretty much proved to me right then and there that you have to try to fail high school, as I was passing in a class that I never attended or did any work for.

 

[levious]

But lots of people come from a background of hardship and graduate high school without getting kicked out and having to make it up later. I'd never think a GED looks great to someone hiring. If you've got two applications/resumes of otherwise equal merit, you're going to go with the person who graduated high school on time.

I didn't mean to say that a GED is better than a diploma... just comparing two GED situations, one good, one not good.

 

[Vark]

"I call BS on this and the original story.

A child attends school regularly, but routinely misses one period each day?

No one is alerted to this fact? No notification is sent?

It does not compute."

Psh, I failed senior english my first semester (teacher was a douche and I slept through class) and my guidance counselor did absolutely nothing about it. Nothing was sent home, no one was contacted, it wasn't until a couple of months later when I went to him and was like 'hey, don't I need to enroll in night school or something to take care of this' and his basic reaction was 'oh yea, you should have done that a week ago'.

Counselors couldn't give two shits and very few of them (HS and colleges alike) are actually good at doing their job. My college graduation counselor was the only one I ever came across that actually knew what she was doing.

 

[Triumph]

What I want to know is, what does Christie Elaine Susan von Lamdamstambamdierdorfolehorfinger think of all this?

 

[TheGreenGiant]

yo dude. Apply to be president of NOA. Fight the one console future for me.

 

[jecclr2003]

Sorry Oli, I'm going to have to agree with the majority. You sir, are a moron for not going STRAIGHT to a lawyer and suing their asses off.

They jepordized your future just so one worthless guidance counselor could save her own skin. They can say the GED is the same as a diploma all they want, it just isnt though. At least not in the eyes of those who make the admissions.

Regardless if you signed something that you agreed to the "Zero Tolerace" rules, that still doesn't give them a right to expel you for something you had no control over. You have a copy of your schedule right? Does it show said class you were supoosed to go to? If not theres your proof.

The bruden of proof in court would lie in them and not you. Any lawyer worth their salt could nail that school to the wall.

For some reason I feel something is being left out of your side of the story.

 

[MrPing1000]

so my husband goes to bar every night, big deal, whoopy doo who gives a dizzle?

 

[commish]

That is the dumbest and lamest reason I have ever heard for kicking someone out of high school. Both you and the school are equally dumb.

 

[DJ Demon J]

I smell bullshit.

Me too.

 

[Iceman]

Hey, we're GED brothers!

 

[shuri]

Oli, why dont you tell us the real story ?

 

[Escape Goat]

Story seems too stupid to be real.

 

[Incognito]

It's real. I vaugely remember Oli talking about this nearing the end of the High School term(April, May) at Opa-Ages. He said that he was going to be at home a lot because someone at the school fucked up and he was expelled.

 

[jarrod]

No, actually, I'm willing to believe that a GED (especially a GED as high as oli sez his is) is just fine for getting into most any college.

You won't get into an Ivy League School with a GED. Period.

Then again, paying so much in tuition for essentially a "better name" on your Bachelor's is a waste anyway. If you want the "better name" it'd be better to save it for a later degree that actually matters.