[Balding_Eagle]

But I'm sure she knows better than everybody else.

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.

[kjam22]

I don't think she made a decision as you've described. An A or B decision. I think she didn't want to take PE, didn't think she needed it.. and thought they could get the school to bend the rules for her. Read the last line in the story. It's obvious that getting a diploma was very important to the family (or at least to her mother).

Her outcome will be fine. But it isn't like she had it all planned out to happen this way.