Last week Dante was really not feeling well and was having bouts of pain and bleeding. So much so that he wound up going to the hospital twice and having a ct scan done. They didnt see anything of note and he is already scheduled for surgery on Wednesday of next week...nothing was done except give him some pain medication.
Unfortunately one of the days that he was out was a day that he was supposed to take a Vocational-Comp Regents....long way of saying a regents exam in your specialty that adds an endorsement to your diploma. In this case Dante' would have had an Advanced Regents Diploma if he passed it.
The Regents board however apparently does not allow for make up exams. Even though the assistant principal did try to arrange for him to take a make up exam, it wound up not happening. That friday that week He was told to come in and take the Spanish regents..which he had the spanish regents class but for some reason was never sent a notification about taking that regents and actually from what I was told was not on the schedule to take it.
However he did go in and take the exam. He later told me that he really didn't feel he did well at all on the test. A lot of the questions were on things that he said were not covered in class. The oral part of the exam he really felt like he botched up badly and so I just told him look you passed several regents exams your work and your record already speak for itself don't get all bent out of shape over this.
Well after having that conversation and pretty much figuring that he would deal with a regular diploma, I got a call today from the assistant principal letting me know that Dante had passed his Spanish Regents with a 73 and that his standing with regards to his diploma would be Advanced Regents ....and i found out on the way home on the train and wound up crying most of the way home...
Go figures
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