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Unread 30-03-2011, 13:11
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Re: To go to Championships...or not....

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Originally Posted by Phyrxes View Post
Given we are going to a "late" FRC regional this year and we have some students going to the VRC championships the following week, we negotiated with our principal that we would only go to Championships if we managed to win our Regional.

Otherwise our April would look like:
Week #1: Regional
Week #2: VRC Championship
Week #3: Spring Break
Week #4: FRC Championship

Our principal wasn't really happy about the missed class time prospects
At my original high school, there was a hardwired policy that if you missed 15 days of school (excused or unexcused), you were considered absent for that semester and would receive an "I" in all of your classes because you had missed enough school to be considered absent. One of my friends skied competitively, and hit that 15 day limit. He was also the valedictorian... so that policy got bent a little bit. Missing class time isn't always the end of the world.

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Originally Posted by GaryVoshol
I understand your point, but can you afford to pay (in both money and time) to take a class when you have already received credit for it?
$500 in AP fees are saving me $50,000 in college tuition... I'm firmly in the "take the credit" camp.
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