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Edited on Mon Sep-13-04 06:41 AM by Scooter24
A friend of mine who is a senior in high school is planning on taking the ACT in October so he can apply for early decision to his first-choice college. The October test is the final testing date that will make the early decision deadline. However, he is in marching band as well and they have scheduled a major competition on the testing day without regard to the students who might want to take it. Now the director is saying that those students who do not attend will receive a no-show grade for the competition and it will reflect in their grades. Normally, he would have just said "to hell with it" and just take the test, but he has been a straight-A student all through high school and it would crush him to get a "B" in marching band, ruining his 4.0 high school average just because he wanted to take the ACT. He is quite upset about this and the Vice-Principle was not any help on Friday as he sided with the director. To summarize, the Vice-Principle said that because the test was not a "school sponsored" test (he's testing at a local junior college) and that he had voluntarily entered into marching band, an extracurricular, on his own will that he is liable to attend the competitions which is a requirement of that class and in the student "contract" that he has to sign at band camp in the summer. It is also past the deadline to drop the class. He is meeting with the Principle when he returns on Tuesday but he or myself does not know how to approach this. Has anyone here, parents or students, experienced any trouble with the school administration over taking the ACT/SAT?
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