She's in for a surprise someday when she tells her boss... "why would I do that project? It just isn't on my priority list". The simple answer is you take what you're suppose to so you get the degree. But I'm sure she knows better than everybody else.
From my perspective, people like this often start their own companies and hire/fire people who lack initiative but are good at taking orders....
"She's in for a surprise someday when she tells her boss... "why would I do that project? It just isn't on my priority list". The simple answer is you take what you're suppose to so you get the degree. But I'm sure she knows better than everybody else."
I doubt this would ever happen. She clearly knows what she needs to do to succeed.
Spoken like a true sheep.
A public school is NOT an employer to this student. To blindly follow the dictates of the publik screwl bureaucrats, to your own detriment, is foolish in the extreme.
I'll bet this young lady knows the difference between bullsqueeze and job duties.
The point is that she was previously at a school where her varsity sports participation meant that she didn't need to take a gym class. Based on that standard, she didn't schedule gym when she was in an earlier grade and had more flexibility to schedule things. The graduation problem occurred only after she had spent three years pursuing an established plan. There's nothing here to suggest that she wouldn't be flexible for an employer. The situation only suggests that she realized that the approval of the educrats was less important than the course she had already mapped. If more people thought and acted as she did, maybe our society would break the power of idiots who value arbitrary rules over actually doing what's right and what accomplishes something.
Bill
She doesn't need the degree as much as she needs the extra coursework. She's willing to give up the degree, which after she graduates from college, and probably goes on through grad school, won't mean didly squat.
The situation is different when than working for someone else, and they are paying you. Is she working for the school, are they paying her? No. In fact they pretend to be working for her, or her parents, or the community as a whole, but in reality of course they are working for their administrators, who are working for, although also attempting to "run", the politicians on the school board.
It looks like she does.
She made what might have been a hard choice between taking a fluff course just to satisfy an arbitrary (and largely useless) standard of getting a diploma, or taking a useful and challenging course and then accepting a GED to meet the technical standards required by the college.
She made a very common sense decision, and exhibited a little of that 'out of the box' thinking that could very well be the precursor of the actions of an invaluable employee.