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Show High School registration gives new opportunities As students contemplate registration at Pleasant Grove High School in early April, they will find increased opportunities to meet their needs. With the advent of the individual education plan, which each student is required to have, schooling has taken on a whole new dimension at the high school level. At one time students had to be within just a few credits of graduating before they had any flexibility at all to pursue optional programs that might better suit their individual needs. Those days are gone. Some students are opting to get their general education classes at the high school and then enter technical programs their senior year or, in some cases, as early as their junior year. One student did this in auto mechanics and upon completion of high school not only graduated with his class but had finished at UTC as a fully certified auto mechanic. Several students are spending their senior year at cosmotology schools and earning their final elective credits. Other students are studying at UTC toi become electronics technicians, electicians, diesel mechanics and other fields while still earning credits toward high school diplomas. In each of these cases the family pays the extra costs. Students like Lance Kartchner spend a half day at the high school and a half day at UTC. Pleasant Grove has over ten students participating in the UTC auto body program. They come to high school for one half a day and go to UTC the other half. The district pays the cost of this program, and students earn both high school and college credit. Last year Lance Newman and Chad Nielsen restored, among other things, a car they called the cat-mobile. cat-mobile. This year Dale Hall won a competition for his outstanding work in the program. To date over 50 students at Pleasant Grove have participated in the auto body program. Students are also earning credits for college right here in some of our vocational programs at the high school. Rod Jackman's advanced See Registration Page 3 s ' , ' - : 7: 4 --v- . J - V x " I "j- rX ... . ; j PGHS drafting teacher Joe Bond, right, demonstrates .?.y ccmprter &ign system fo a student. High School registration Continued from front page health careers classes are being given college credit. Joe Bond's advanced drafting classes will waive college credit in that area of study. Students in Advanced Placement classes also have the opportunity to earn college credit if they do well enough on the AP exam. In fact, it is possible to start as a sophomore in college by earning college credit in high school classes. There are also work options at the high school where students enroll in classes related to their work and receive up to two credits a year for their work experience. This can be done during the junior and senior year. It should also be noted that some students are electing to graduate at the end of their junior year, by taking an excelerated program. Stacie Bullock did this a year ago to enter a nursing program at college. All of these programs are designed to better meet the needs of our students and better prepare them for the opportunities that will be theirs in the future. Specific details relating to these and other programs are best found by talking directly to the school counselor iabout your child's individual in-dividual situation. |