My HS diploma from California isn’t even good toilet paper.
The best thing I ever did was to do high school over again as a home school curriculum.
Best. Thing. EVER.
For 15 years a student had to pass an exit exam, called CAHSEE, in order to get a diploma. Students had six opportunities, beginning as a sophomore through their senior year, to pass; if they failed all attempts, they received a certificate of completion of HS instead. Two years ago, the CA legislature decided to vacate all CAHSEE scores, and retroactively give all students with completion certificates diplomas instead. They have since replaced the test with one called CAASPP, which tests students in grades 3-5, and also 11, but what effect it has on high school graduation with a diploma, I am not sure.
That was a clever move.