In my state, in order to graduate from high school, students have to have 4 English, 4 math, 3 Science, 3 History, 2 Foreign Language, 0.5 Health, 1 PE, O.5 State History, and maybe 7 electives.
For HG/PG kids that are advanced, I see a problem with this "box" (what I call it) because some kids do advanced math before high school and "run out" of math courses available. Some kids don't need English 9, 10, 11, 12, but should skip to 11 and then they run out of available English courses. Yes, there is a 2 yr junior college here, but only jrs & srs are authorized to take courses, online courses are discouraged (they like "seat time") and even then they only go up to second semester calculus.
To me we need to be able to get credit for advanced work in middle school or outside of school and graduate early. I understand that GEDs are not well regarded by top universities.
My question is have any of you been able to negotiate the credits issue (other than GED), and if so, how?
