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Next week my son will have finals. He is only going to be required to take one (well, technically two, but they have already started their engineering final project)! He was really happy about this. He works hard (or at least hard enough) to maintain his exempt status. What this means is that he does not have to take certain finals. This applies to all his core classes. As I stated, he was very happy about this.

As it turns out this year, at this school (the other high school is not requiring this), if the student is exempt, they must attend their class anyway! If they do not come to class, even though they are exempt from the test, they will lose their exempt status. Which translates to having to take the test, which they cannot do if they are not there, which results in a zero for the final exam grade. He is really bummed about that because being exempt is a reward which he worked to attain by keeping his grades up and attending school even when he did not feel so good (exemptions are based on grades and absences.)

The reason the students have to show up even if exempt? So the school can get the money for each student in attendance!

Ah, Public School…