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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Don't they have finals? [/quote]

Not since the Obama administration. [/quote]

What? Doesn't anyone in high school take finals?[/quote]

The Board of Education eliminated final exams at the end of both semesters back in 2015 or so.  So no, no one in high school takes finals.  Many do take AP and/or IB Exams, but they obviously don't count toward the course grade and they've already been taken weeks ago.[/quote]

Why did they do that? Do they take midterms for year-long courses? How can these students be prepared for college if they've never taken cumulative exams? [/quote]

There are no year-long courses in high school. All courses are semester-length.[/quote]

What? So algebra 2 lasts from September- January and then that's it? Why? Nearly every course I took in HS went from September through June with a midterm in January and a final in June.[/quote]

No, there is Algebra 2A in the fall semester, which has a final grade, then Algebra 2B in the spring semester, which also has a final grade. Both courses' grades are reported on the transcript.[/quote]

NP: I knew that year-long courses were split in two like this, but I didn't know that there was no attempt to keep the same teacher for the two courses.   My son really enjoyed his English class this first semester (which was a first), but he then checked out again after being assigned a new teacher for the second semester.   I realize that the reverse scenario (bad teacher --&gt; good teacher)  is just as likely to happen.      But overall it seems better (when possible) to keep the same teacher for both halves of the same course.

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