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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's why student who want to defer should not be allowed to do so.  They should have to reapply next year.  [/quote]

Yes because they haven't been screwed over enough this year.[/quote]

So because one kid doesn’t want to start school online in the fall they get to screw another kid out of a spot in a college altogether? How is that fair? Play the hand your dealt. [/quote]

They are playing the hand they are dealt. Their play is to defer. You act like that is what the seniors want.  They want to go to school in Fall 2020. Deferring is a sacrifice.

Why can't your junior take a bit of the hit? They will get to be a second semester senior, prom, etc.  Come on, teach your kid to be a good team member - they need to carry their share of the burden.  They are basically getting to skate by on half of what is supposed to be the hardest academic year (open book APs, pass/fail classes). [/quote]

Juniors are taking a lot of hits right now. Seniors got to have a fairly normal college application process - regularly interacting with their junior year teachers they were going to ask to write recommendation letters, taking the SAT/ACTs, college visits ... Juniors are not getting that, and are currently dealing with having no idea how the college application process is even going to go for them. You think these changed AP tests are beneficial for them? Show some compassion.

Seniors have it hard. Juniors have it hard. They have it hard in different ways. And if Seniors are planning on deferring, what makes you so sure Juniors are going to get the normal Senior experience (which they can't anyway, since all the college app prep stuff they should have been in the middle of has gotten cancelled) when you're arguing that Seniors shouldn't have to start college in a weird way? Which, I agree with, by the way. But don't pretend that if colleges start the year online, that high schools aren't also going to be affected. Get your head out of the hole its in and look at how other people are being affected.[/quote]

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