[Ones44]

My school is starting tomorrow... and it is hell on earth... They have already given me a bunch of bs on class, I can't wait for all the bs that'll happen when school actually is in session...
The guidance counselor told me to take Spanish 4, but the Admin told me that it is against school policy. wtf?
Also, they told me that you have to get at least an 80 in precalc exam to move on to calc... I got a 67... I found that calc is in my schedule for this year... which is nice, but i didn't do the summer work, because i wasn't meant to be in the class. So I start year off with a 0 in a class. thank you school for f***ing me up again.

[Travelinglady]

Strange, deadly ones. I somehow get the idea that this school doesn't know what it's doing. Sorry you're getting messed up in the deal!

[lolathecat]

Sounds like the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. I would have someone in an authority position look over your schedule again. Or explain to the 'rents and have them do it.

[Perna]

Sometimes it works well for one, sometimes not. What do you want? If you appear clueless and sign up for what you want, that usually can happen. I'm sorry you did not do the summer calc work; what math were you expecting to take this year? If you have the summer work available, I'd dust that off and start working hard on that (or drop out of the calculus class). If they literally stop you from signing up for Spanish IV, nothing you can do about that, unless you really want it and then you argue with them and tell them the guidance counselor told you to take it, etc.

If you are going to go to college, it gets even worse with what gets screwed up (since you have to make all the decisions) but there's always opportunities to make that work for you too. There are lots of "rules" with schools but so many students that often you can wriggle through the cracks and no one notices (if you are successful); I took courses for upper level students only when I was lower level, etc. Figure out what you want to do and make a plan for a couple years ahead so you have wriggle room :-) A lot of rules are based on what happens to "most" students. You can always decide to go for it and be the exception. Don't base what you do on what others say. Is there a pre-calc? Take that if you can instead of the calc this year. Don't go along with "their" program for you, they don't know you and what you want/need, they are just basing you on averages (and you ain't average :-)

[Oxidopamine]

If I were you, I'd consider whether you are interested in the calculus class because you probably will need to do a lot of catch-up work on your own time. I'm not understanding the issue of your Spanish IV class, so I would try to get more information. If you really want to take it, then try to argue your case, especially if it is open to other students. Unfortunately, this all seems to come down to staff and school admin not keeping in touch or knowing what the other is doing.

You may find that your schedule changes after a week or so. This does sound a bit odd, however, during my 3rd year in university, there was a huge screw-up with the online course registration system. Fortunately, I managed to maintain my schedule. For a different semester, the university did another change in which it evaluated which students could be allowed in based on their academic history, GPA and majors. Unfortunately, this was only announced after the first week of classes, so some students got booted out and scrambled to find another course. This time I was affected and had to enroll in alternate courses.

[Ones44]

Schools are just crazy... and that is the way it is.