Repeating Junior Year @ Public High School

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>My Junior year in high school has not been exactly the best, a close friend of mine committed suicide at the beginning of the school year. At first I was fine, but soon I grew depressed and had my own thoughts of suicide, I went to the doctors and psychiatrist for help and was excused from school for a period of time. I ended up missing a total of 71 days of school, about 40% of the school year. Due to being absent a majority of the school year I wasn't able to receive most of the class room material and didn't to well in a most of my classes. </p>

<p>I am intending to transfer to a new public high school next year (my old high school is also a public high school), to start over. I'm still not sure about retention policies in public high schools, but do you think since I missed that many days of school due to illness they would allow me to repeat my Junior year of high school @ a public high school? </p>

<p>Would I need to a doctor's & psychiatrist's note to present it to the new school I will be transferring to? Would I also have to bring the case up to the district office for approval?</p>

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<p>You are probably best off contacting the district of your new school immediately to see if you have enough credits from your junior year so that you can pass on to become a senior any maybe get away with taking 2 class over if need be. Would your last school offer you a chance to go a summer school session (if they have them) to possibly redo work and get your grades up to passing? </p>

<p>I think as long as you were able to earn the credits needed to pass on to the next grade, I think the board would excuse the absences. I have know of people to miss as much of school as you during the year and be able to move on to the next grade if they were able to prove that they were able to comprehend the material they missed.</p>

<p>Also, good luck in your next school year, I wish you the best of thoughts. :)</p>