Kevin's Watch

... on the other hand, it's not too late to sign up for a class on executive decision making.

Bit late, but I win anyway.

Take the classes. Path of least resistance and all that.

--A

Whichever option is selected, the fact that your are getting your diploma is fantastic Wadds. Congrats on your commitment to complete your HS educational process - and well wishes for success!

Creator wrote:Whichever option is selected, the fact that your are getting your diploma is fantastic Wadds. Congrats on your commitment to complete your HS educational process - and well wishes for success!

Hear! Hear!!

Murrin wrote:If I had to make the choice, I'd take the classes. But that's just a personal aversion to things like this project, so I'm probably not one that should be giving advice on it.

Agreed on all points. I'd take the classes, but that's because I hate projects and I'm inherently lazy. I think Gunslinger made a good point; if you take the classes, might you fail to exorcise your demons? Only you can answer that, but it's worth bearing in mind, I think.

You've made your decision, it seems, but as a project would researching what would be necessary to set up a karaoke business count as one?

You do seem to enjoy it, and it would have a practical merit if you were to decide that you would be able to make a few $ on the side doing so.

(I'll throw in my two cents just because I hate these things.)

GAH! It's the 4P's back from the Grave!

Wadds, my call is to do the first option. Graduation projects like this suck and have nothing to be learned from it. It's exactally like you said, these things serve as nothing but hoops for us to jump through and pretend like it proves that we're ready to graduate. Most of the kids just BS the project anyway (I did) because we all know it's crap. At least with the english classes it'll be enjoyable and you'll learn something.

The graduation projects are a complete waste of time. Six months later and I'm still having nightmares from my bastard project!

Balon wrote:Graduation projects like this suck and have nothing to be learned from it.

I learned enough from mine to help manage a theater...

Really?

Well the some good came from it.

Okay. Revision.

My schools graduation project had nothing be learned. All it was was thirty-five hours of mandatory community service (which I didn't mind, but dissagreed with to graduate from high school) and fifty or so hours worth of work on a binder showing what we wanted to do with the rest of our lives. Which I still don't know. As did the rest of my class. Because we're eighteen.

Then mine was structured to make more sense. I went to a boarding school and pretty much lucked in my Senior Project. Seniors couldn't even live at our school for the last two months of spring semester-we had to work at what we were doing. I had no idea what I would do. Fortunately the community theater director was in the audience of a play I was in and wanted me involved in his project. While I commuted to the community theater, I, actually, lived at the other High School (boarding school) and did alot of prep work and design in their theater. The great thing was I didn't have to go to class there!!!

That's cool! Sounds like a lot of fun.

What is this about a graduation project, anyway?

I never heard of it as a requirement for graduation.

The only requirement I had, at each level of education: elementary, high school and college, outside of passing your classes, was that you had to study and pass a test on the U.S. and state of Illinois constitutions.

We did a Roaring Twenties version of A Midsummer's Night Dream and we even had a Broadway choreographer come up to train us in our dance steps. I had never danced before and it was damm tuff! Alot of hard work but, yes, very fun--and I soon became very good friends with some extermely hot girls at that school! (If I knew how to convert ancient slides into photos I'd post a shot of young danlo doing the Cakewalk on stage! )

For our school district anyway, it was started my freshman year. It's different for each state and district, but for me it was the thirty-five hours mandatory community service, a portfolio about your plans for the future, and a presentation to a panel about your plans.

I covered being happy and picking up garbage in the woods while I walk around as my future.

It's really ridiculous.

I'd have to give Wadds alot of credit for telling that kind of project to "shove it".

Seriously!

I didn't have the guts too, even though I wanted to.

Like Damelon I wasn't required a project either. Thank God from the descriptions of Balon....that sounds really mindnumbing...

You have no idea. I'm just glad it's over.

Here in Florida the high school students are required to do 75 hours of community service over their four years of high school to qualify for the State funded Florida Bright Futures scholarship. But AFAIK, community service is not required to graduate. I may be mistaken though...

Weird stuff man. All we had to do was pass our exams.

--A