I emailed the VP : Could you tell me what’s the last day to withdraw from a class?
She emailed me back: Do not worry about the deadline as we can make changes as needed.
What does it mean?
Are you in HS or College? What is the VP? You should check the school’s handbook for dates like that. It’s usually explicitly stated.
Thank you. It’s a HS. VP stands for vice president. There is no information in the school’s handbook.
Who is the VP? Do you have a health issue or other disability that allows you accommodations? A deadline for withdrawal is sometimes waived if a student has a good reason due to a disability. Not sure I understand your post or the response from the VP. Can you clarify or give more information?
It means go to your college website or your student portal and look or search for a calendar or deadlines and see what the last date to withdraw from classes. Do not rely on “we can make changes as needed.”
I emailed the VP : Could you tell me what’s the last day to withdraw from a class?
She emailed me back: Do not worry about the deadline as we can make changes as needed.
Thank you. My son is a HS student. VP stands for vice president.
My understanding is that we can drop any time.
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Yes, my son has health issue. There is no policy about the deadline.
Is this a public school?
Is your son withdrawing due to health?
Talk to the principal and get a 504 plan. Your son has the right to tutoring at home or a plan from the school that enables him to continue. For instance, my daughter received a sheet each day from all teachers with what was done in class, homework assigned, class materials, grades missing, and tests given, along with notes from class.
If your son is going to withdraw for other reasons, then most school districts will want a plan in place- unless he is over the required attendance age (16 in my state). Otherwise he would be truant. He can homeschool, or go to another school, or do high school dual enrollment at community college, or do online courses, many options.
Even if he stays in school, online classes can be helpful for kids with health issues: check out Virtual High School.
If he is over the required age for being in school, he can withdraw (drop out) anytime.
Please, if health is a reason for this, make sure to advocate because students with health issues have some civil rights and are entitled to help from the school.
Thank you very much! Your points are really a great help for us!
They never told me 504 plan. They forced my son to go to school. I requested Virtual High School or independent study, but they just ignored. They let my son enrolled 4 courses in the HS. I thought we can drop those courses anytime. But when I asked dropping, they said they can’t drop it since by law my son has to be enrolled 4 classes.
Even my son never started those course, they still put 4 Fs on his transcript.
I know school district can not handle legal issues. Where to file complaint for not following 504?
They are violating his civil rights. Do you have e-mails or documents proving you asked them to help him and asked to withdraw him? You can call the Federal Dept. of Education’s Office for Civil Rights in your area. It sounds scary but they can be really helpful. Also a Federation for Children with Special Needs. I
One of the most helpful things can be seeing a lawyer. It costs about $200 though. if you are low income there is legal assistance available for low or no cost.
Feel free to PM me.
Any student should be able to do Virtual High School or Aventa Learning or any other school that is equivalent. After we used Virtual High School our school actually joined as an institution and now 25 students each semester can take classes online for free.
If you son has an MD or other professional who will document his health challelnge, the school HAS TO provide for him and his transcript should NEVER suffer due to health.
Tell the principal you want a 504 and that you are going to consult legal help about the transcript even if you aren’t!!! Say it calmly, firmly and like you mean it- no motherly emotion, just business like determination 
I really appreciated your kind help.
Here was the email I sent to the VP:
Could you cancel the classes of the second semester for my son? He wanted to finish schoolworks for the first semester but has no time to finish schoolworks for the second semester.
The VP emailed me back:
Unfortunately, this is not an option. He must be enrolled in 4 classes and I cannot drop him from second semester.
I provided several notes from different doctors of my son. But they said the doctors stated that my son can do home teaching. My son did home teaching for making up the first semester. But he has no energy to do schoolwork for second semester.
BTW, this is a public school.
Don’t you have another thread about this? Didn’t I read your child was dual enrolled and going to community college at the same time?
He has been dual enrolled and going to community college after 11th grade, not the same time.
Are you withdrawing yoir son from this public high school? If so, just withdraw him from the school. If you do so, he will not graduate from this school.
If he is enrolled in the public school…the school needs to be sure he will have sufficient courses to graduate.
If there are concerns regarding health or whatever, and a 504 accommodation plan needs to be considered, you need to contact the school to initiate this process.
He is a senior at a public HS. He has sufficient courses to graduate on June 2015. I was talking about something happened last year.
So the issue is that you want his transcript to be clean, that bad grades from a semester should not be on the record? Or do you want to withdraw him right now? if he has sufficient credits to graduate, then he can leave without a problem.
If you want the transcript clean, I would suggest legal help. Keep the correspondence and the medical documents. You would have to show that the school did not provide the accommodations they should have. The e-mail you just posted did not make clear there was a health problem so I assume that was only one of many.
Yes, I want his transcript to be clean. He has sufficient credits to graduate.
He has been dual enrolled and going to community college since last August. Yes, I have the medical documents.