OK, so a lot of people have a recurring dream where you have to go back to high school because you missed a graduation requirement, even though you’re a grown-ass adult. But I’m curious if anyone knows what would actually happen in this scenario. Would they wave it off, or would you need to take a college class, or get your GED (or equivalent)? Any educators out there to enlighten us?
I don’t know for certain but I think if the school already gave you a diploma, they can’t take it back.
I have heard of situations in tv shows where a person who never got their diploma go back and finish so they can get a particular job or promotion. I could see that happening. I think for adults, they have highschool equivalency courses.
LOL, if my high school called me and told me I had to come back and take another class or they would revoke my diploma, I’d laugh my ass off and tell them to go fuck themselves. I have a masters at this point—pretty sure my higher degrees don’t become invalid just because my H.S. diploma is suddenly voided on a technicality.
Yeah. My professional licenses say I need to graduate specific collegiate programs, it doesn’t say shit about high school.
I didn’t finish high school until I was 35. I went back to college and needed to upgrade on mark. I had failed two classes needed to graduate due to a poor home-life. (I missed a lot of school and barely handed in work - had 35% in the class, got 75% on the exam - did not reach a passing grade. In both classes!)
I only needed one of the two to get in to my program, but I just went ahead and did them both to get my diploma while I was at it.
It was English and social studies that I needed to graduate, so it wasn’t too hard. Where I live you can challenge the exams for free if you’ve been out of school for more than two years. So I did a 2-day exam prep course (at $90 each) with a bunch of high schoolers before each one. Got 89% on each exam, got my diploma in the mail like a month later. 😎
TIL this is a wide-spread recurring nightmare/dream…
I haven’t had one of these in a long time. I was a kind of crap high school student and even got my GED so I could attend classes at a community college and transfer to a four-year university. I now have a master’s and I don’t think I’ve had one of these nightmares since graduating and entering into my profession. But while in college and grad school I had these frequently!
The whole idea is preposterous of course. They would never Billy Madison us for a clerical error on their part.
Personally, my dreams don’t have intricate plots. I’ve dreamt I’m in school again but the dream doesn’t provide an explanation, it just is. Or at least, i don’t remember details after I wake up
Once you graduate they won’t undo it. That paperwork is moreorless Final.
My grandfather had that happen with his masters degree, they never scheduled him one of the required math courses for his degree(he always went through the advisors office to schedule), and had told him he was all set to apply for graduation, so he did and they just blindly signed off on it. It wasn’t found out till after everything was finalized but they basically said “yea that’s on us, enjoy the degree”
Nope. I could have graduated as a junior had they let me take a single class that was “Only available to seniors.”
The class was 1 semester and dealt with reading a copy of Newsweek. It was junk. I made them pay for it. Because I had already maxed out their computer program the school district sent me to the local community college for free.
it’d depend on your local laws and rules. generally there’s a cut off age for completing high school, and once you’re past it you have to GED.
No high school would undo a diploma. Once issued, they have other things to work on and it isn’t a high priority.
Anyone in the workforce wouldn’t be affected if they did have their diploma rescinded as they already have work experience and nobody really cares about a high school diploma except as a formality.
So it wouldn’t happen and it would not matter if it did.
“We see you graduated top of your class and defended your thesis in [field] to acquire a ph.d. However, we see you are missing a credit from highschool so we will be revoking all your achievements.”
Go to Adult Education and finish your credits needed to get highschool diploma.
This is the real answer, OP
Who is “they”?
Any random authority figure who might care about such a thing (undergrad admissions, jobs, grad school, etc)
In reality, if you needed something to graduate, they would mention it before graduation. If somehow they missed it and sent you the diploma anyway, there’s no way anyone would care enough to make you come back (unless maybe if you REALLY pissed off somebody very important prior to the discovery.)
Youd have to take the GED
But without pants on.Best answer so far
My buddy was missing some needed pre-requisites for his program. But the college offers the same or equivalent classes. Just turned into an extra semester of work for him at the college.
That happend to me, I studeid Englis literachure and endid up as a Highscool techer. But I failed severel coursis in Highscool myself, but dew to an administrativ eror, this went unnoticed for a long tyme… untill I met my old techer agen. She sed she had reportid me, but the skool didn’t take any action!
My cousin did. He was on track to graduate until he was in the hospital for a month. They let him graduate with his class but he had to go back for a few months to retake the classes that he failed for that reason before he got his diploma.
Other than that weirdness though it unlikely.
