Re: A Cry For Help.

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From: just me
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 00:00

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"toto" <nobody@nowhere.invalid> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 06 Jun 2000 00:04:27 GMT, marion10@earthlink.net (Marion
> Baumgarten) wrote:
>
> >Ted Rosenberg <tedrosenberg@iname.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Joni J Rathbun wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> You can get your GED as soon as you are out of  school -drop out,
> >> graduate, just OUT any way you do it !  You do have to notify the LEA
in
> >> writing that you are GONE before you can apply for a GED.  In some
states
> >> you have to be 16 to leave school, Besides you don't NEED a GED.
> >
> >Actually this varies from state to state- in Illinois you can't take the
> >test until you are 18.
> >
> I don't quite understand the logic of this.  If you can drop out at
> 16, why can't you take the GED immediately?  Makes no sense.
> Many kids would not pass it, but for those who can, why not?
>
I have been told, FWIW, that this is to discourage drop out behavior simply
to take the GED and avoid school attendance.  The rule in Mass. when I was
there ten years ago was that you could not take the GED test until your
class graduated.

-Aula

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From: "just me" <thedewitts@earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: A Cry For Help.
Date: 2000/06/21
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