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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My daughter wants to be in Paris which narrows the options considerably. She also wants to do spring semester.

I don’t think our high school will give credit, but it is a good suggestion to ask for their opinions. I know of another student that went to Germany for a semester. I have a call out to his mom to ask how that went for him.[/quote]
Why not just have her do a gap year.[/quote]

This is the answer.

If she’s in a public school, it’s not going to fly for her to jest get no credits for half the year, states don’t require just that you get the work done, there are also attendance requirements…plus how would this even work given that most classes are full year? Plus selective colleges want to see 4 full years of English, math, science, etc.[/quote]

It might be possible- I graduated from my local public school after spending junior and senior years as an exchange student in two different countries- but it was a bureaucratic nightmare that I don't think would be worth it for a semester. I could write a tome about what needed to happen (summer school, getting exemptions to sit for state tests a year in advance without taking that level of coursework for classes with no seat time, advance approval from host schools to have a particular class schedule, translating foreign grades, etc) but I'll just say the first step is to talk to your HS principal (superintendent? I had to) and get a sense of what this might look like.

Having said that, doing a summer or gap year is WAY easier. [/quote]

Agree that for a public school a full calendar year might be easier than a semester.  We lived overseas so I’m familiar with the process of having to document that my kid did class X in country X and having to show curriculum to get credits and agree it can be challenging (and my kids were at an accredited international school which is more familiar with having to show that they align with other educational systems around the world.)

But maybe OP’s kid is at a more flexible private school. I’m curious to hear how a half year would be done -and agree it sounds like a great opportunity for the kid.[/quote]

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