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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At our kid’s school, kid asked to leave after junior year due to failing a required class. The school’s position was that it didn’t offer it during the summer, it was a core class, and the school requires all core classes to be taken at school taught by school personnel. The school would not let the kid take the class senior year. (The school told me directly. It came up when I asked about having my kid take a class over the summer.) I was shocked. At some schools, it doesn’t take much to be asked to leave. But do call around.  [/quote]

They kicked out a kid for their senior year of HS?? That is just a sh!!tty thing to do.

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It does happen. And it happens after several years of school working closely with the student and family but the student just can't keep up.

Schools do not do this lightly. They are in a tug of war, they do want to help the kid and the families do want to stay at the school. Many times there's a DEI layer wrapped in so they feel ideologically committed. But then comes that point when it's clear kid will just be failing most classes in Jr and Sr year.

The families do often feel betrayed but it does go both ways as the families could have quickly seen what was happening and cut losses and moved kid to a less competitive school earlier. Which others do all the time.[/quote]

In the above post, the student failed [b]one[/b] class. And the school refused to find a way for that student to stay for their senior year. Some supportive community.

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Never has a kid failed a class and had zero other issues. Failing a class is a huge deal. There was likely more going on and this was the straw that broke the camel’s back.  [/quote]

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