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You only need one credit of foreign language for the normal Diploma, three credits of foreign language for the advanced Diploma. I'm pretty sure its for all of New York.
High School
- Thread starter BubbleBelly542
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You only need one credit of foreign language for the normal Diploma, three credits of foreign language for the advanced Diploma. I'm pretty sure its for all of New York.
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- EvanJamesLee
Not High school but back in middle school during the 8th grade, I had all 80s or above in every class except spanish where I had a 79. That 1 point kept me off Honor Role. I am still pissed.
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- PeteWheet
According to my school, Spanish is an elective. If those 80s were above 85, you'd be on the honor roll.
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- EvanJamesLee
In my middle school it was a required course. You got to choose either Spanish or French. Its an elective in my High School though with only two years required.
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- PeteWheet
It's required for one course of a foreign language (Spanish is the only class available here minus the virtual school) in order to graduate. It's optional to take two courses of that same language, but mandatory if any of us wants to go to college. This is my high school by the way. Our middle school has no foreign language class.
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- NaveekDarkroom
Well, I'm not sure how different it is in British Columbia.
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- EvanJamesLee
Massachusetts has a different educational system than other states so we get Middle School foreign language and two years of it required in High School.
They say we have one of the best school systems in the country although personally I think we have a rather unpractical setup, my school doesn't have shop class. The only way to take it is to apply to a trade school instead of taking normal high school which is stupid in my opinion.
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Had a relief teacher that I knew from my old school for my maths class today, he was reading out maths puns to us in the last few minutes 
We're starting persuasive techniques in English so we were watching some ads on YouTube. We watched a Toyota Hilux ad and YouTube's autoplay had TopGear's "Killing a Toyota" play next. We ended up watching all of it. For the next lesson, we need to find and ad and explain the persuasive techniques it used. The teacher said that she'd let me show another TopGear video, now I'm trying to decide between the Ford Fiesta road test and this BMW ad:
Thoughts, anyone?
We're starting persuasive techniques in English so we were watching some ads on YouTube. We watched a Toyota Hilux ad and YouTube's autoplay had TopGear's "Killing a Toyota" play next. We ended up watching all of it. For the next lesson, we need to find and ad and explain the persuasive techniques it used. The teacher said that she'd let me show another TopGear video, now I'm trying to decide between the Ford Fiesta road test and this BMW ad:
Thoughts, anyone?
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MY school used to offer a half year of French, half year of Spanish in 7th grade to see which is better/easier, but they cancelled that.
Our 'shop' class is called Technology and Design, and we have 5 or 6 of them. My school is lucky to have a ton of Tech, Art, Music, and Business Classes, because most other schools in my area don't offer some of those.
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- EvanJamesLee
I think all of the High Schools in my area are limited in what electives we have so that the Technical school can get more students, It is a real disappointment though because we have a wood shop classroom and a culinary classroom but no classes are offered for them.
We have computer classes, theater and music but I'm not really interested in that stuff so art is the only elective I can do. I went in drawing class for Freshman year which was awesome but then art foundations where we had to make pictures out of magazine clippings in Sophomore year which was terrible. Now I have two gym classes for Junior year since there aren't any other electives I'm interested in.
I would join band but they don't take harmonica players.
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Yeah - make it short, sweet and to the point. Keep your focus on the question; if I am your teacher and I think that you have used the task as an excuse to show a video from "Top Gear", then entertaining though it may be, I am going to mark you down for it.
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- Crash852
I took a foreign language throughout middle and high school, and ended up being fluent in it.
But the same could be said of any other subjects. Different individuals learn math, science, history, English language and literature, etc. all at different paces. Yes, ideally, everything is tailored to each individual for every subject, but that is impractical. How do you propose that we implement the individual instruction per each student?
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With regards to foreign language, I think it would be a good thing to require multiple years of a language so that students attain minimal proficiency standards. Doing just 1 year just scratches at the surface.
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- OriginalCheezIt
I compared manual and automatic transmissions to white and black tie dress codes today.
I'm thinking way too much about prom for not having a date
I'm thinking way too much about prom for not having a date
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- RacingCowboy570
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At lunch today I decided to walk over to the nearby convenience store. Bought a little tray of pizza rolls, walk outside and its a fairly windy day. Get about 3 steps from the school and all of a sudden this huge gust of wind comes and knocks my food right out of my hands. Damn North Dakota weather 
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So one of my High School teachers was arrested today (he wasn't one of my teachers). The weird thing was the incident happened back in February so I have no clue why charges are being brought up now.
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- EvanJamesLee
At lunch today I decided to walk over to the nearby convenience store. Bought a little tray of pizza rolls, walk outside and its a fairly windy day. Get about 3 steps from the school and all of a sudden this huge gust of wind comes and knocks my food right out of my hands. Damn North Dakota weather
They let you leave school during lunch? Lucky.
We are forced to eat the school's cafeteria "food", that or make are own lunch at 6 in the morning.
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- RacingCowboy570
- RacingCowboy570
Anyone 9th grade or up is allowed to leave at lunch.
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- EvanJamesLee
At my school, only the seniors are allowed to leave the cafeteria. Even then, they only get to sit at the outside tables.
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- Viraax_The _Wolf
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I start term 2 today 
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At my school, the seniors can get senior passes which allows them to leave the school freely during study hall.
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- RacingCowboy570
- RacingCowboy570
Gee, I am lucky.
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- EvanJamesLee
The seniors here can get those passes too for study thats first period so they can come in early or last period so they can leave late.
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The last two days of me doing announcements was hilarious, yesterday I paused for a minute for some odd reason and today I was doing it but it was Nation Secretary Appreciation day so I said thank you to our Secretarys and they made me blush and I kept stuttering like hell.... Then my vice princpal was like it's ok no one listens to announcements anyway 
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- RacingCowboy570
- RacingCowboy570
I just happened to look at my calendar today, and noticed it was Secretary Appreciation Day also.The last two days of me doing announcements was hilarious, yesterday I paused for a minute for some odd reason and today I was doing it but it was Nation Secretary Appreciation day so I said thank you to our Secretarys and they made me blush and I kept stuttering like hell.... Then my vice princpal was like it's ok no one listens to announcements anyway
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- Smurfybug
- Smurfybug
I didn't know till my principal came and handed me a post it right before I started lol
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- NaveekDarkroom
Looks like I may be able to get my English Lit mark out of the hole. Maybe. I'm starting to actually kind of keep up with the work now, and I have a plan for the scrapbook project that's been weighing be down the entire school year. If I keep up the rate I've been working at for the last couple entries, I could theoretically finish it by May. Whether that works out remains to be seen. Everything else has been going fine, except for yesterday where I had to wear sandals because I broke the lace on one of my shoes right when I was leaving.
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