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If you dropped out from your high school can you still get your diploma from your high school later on?
Yes, just write to your highschool..they will have one on file, and if they dont then the district will. It will probably cost you like 5 dollars or something like that..like transcripts do.
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ProfessorYes you can, in most places you are put into community schools for a shrt period of time till you get accepted by a normal school (when i say normal school i mean one that isn't a place where kids with behaviour problems go if they get expelled)
If you are 16 you have the choice to go back and get last moment revision in for your GCSE exams (British)but you can just wait until you can apply for college, apprenticeships but its not likely you will get into sixth form considering you have expullsion on your record...
Answer 1: I guess so, if they let you in and you don't get kicked out again.
Answer 2: First answerer seems unsure. I am not.
It absolutely does not matter how or from where you get your high school diploma, as long as you at least get it. Somehow. Don't just let it go. One cannot get even the most basic of jobs, in life, without at least a high school diploma. Truth is, things, today, are such that one can't get any of the decent jobs, in life, without a bachelors degree, too. But one thing at a time.
If you've been kicked-out of your high school, fear not. Yes, another high school in your school district may take you; however, they all talk to one another, plus whatever got you kicked-out will be on your transcript; and so another high school may only allow you to enter on probationary status; or you may be required, by your school district, to go to night school.
You could also move to an entirely different school district, but, again, they, too, will require a copy of your transcript which will reflect what happened.
Before I tell you how you can easily get your high school diploma, no matter what has happened, let me first tell you this: High schools, today, are booting kids out of school for almost no reason anymore. I'm 56 years old, and while I agree that it being almost impossible to get kicked-out of high school, no matter what one did, back then, was probably not the right approach...
...today's high schools and their zero-tolerance policies for things kicking kids out for minor infractions, or having them arrested, is just plain wrong. I don't know what the questioner did to get kicked-out, but I'll bet it was something for which no one could get kicked out a mere generation ago.
There's a fellow named John Whitehead, of the Rutherford Insitutue (which I find to be a little bit too conservative, for my tastes; but occasionally we agree) who just made a vodcast about a very similar subject. I'll put the link to it in the "sources and related links" section of this page, below.
I would most strongly recommend that the questioner consult with an attorney at law and determine if the expulsion was lawful. Then again, it may be a battle too emotional and expensive to fight, and that's okay, too.
Regardless, though, anyone who is kicked-out (or drops-out) of his/her high school may recover, and emerge, in the end, none the worse for wear, by simply getting an online high school diploma...
...however, not just any online high school will do. There are tons of completely bogus online high schools out there. Only those that are "regionally" accredited will do. Remember that!
All US local city/county school district public K-12 schools are "regionally" accredited by one of the US's six big "regional" accreditors approved by the US Department of Education (USDE). Yes, there's such a thing as USDE-approved "national" accreditation; and at the college (post-secondary) level, there's a legitimate debate about whether "regional" or "national" accreditation is better. However, at the high school (secondary) level, only "regional" accreditation will do. Accept nothing less.
Some US states have special online high school programs in place -- some of them especially for those who are either kicked-out or drop-out of high school -- which allow anyone who was once a public high school student in said state to pick-up where they left off using one of the special state online high school programs. Some of them are even free. And some of them will even allow the student to avail himself/herself of said program until their 21 or sometimes even 25. And, in such cases, the state programs are always "regionally" accredited.
Do check your local state department of education's website and see if such a program is offered. If it's not, that's okay... there are many "regionally" accredited online high schools out there. Some are fairly expensive, but at least one that I like and often recommend is pretty affordable. It's called "James Madison High School," and it's operated by Ashworth College. I've put a link to it in the "sources and related links" section, below.
Ashworth College is only nationally accredited, but its high school, James Madison, is regionally accredited. And its priced about right. Be sure to take the college-bound track, just in case you decide to go to college someday.
So that no one will accuse me of being a shill for Ashworth, its direct competitor at the college level is Penn Foster College; and its high school is also regionally accredited. Do check it out, too.
Dr. John Bear (who has written many books on distance learning, and who is a devoted anti-degree-mill/anti-diploma-mill activist who has testified before Congress about it, and who has written, along with an FBI agent, the definitive book on degree mills) has released a book on getting aschool diploma by non-traditional means that's just excellent. It's actually written by Tom Nixon, the guy I discuss in the next paragraph, but with Bear's oversight. I could not more strongly recommend it. I've put a link to it in the "sources and related links," below.
There's also a fellow out there named Tom Nixon who has written one of the best books out there on getting a credible online high diploma. I've put a link to his book, on Amazon, in the "sources and related links," below; and he also has a companion (to the book) website which lists all the best online high schools of which he's aware; and I know he keeps it up-to-date. I've put a link to that down in the "sources and related links" section, too.
However, beware: Tom is willing to list some online high schools on his website which are credible, but not accredited. There aren't many of them, but last time I looked at his site, I spotted a few. And I know why he listed them; I'm very familiar with them, and I agree that they're credible...
...but the problem remains that if one's high school diploma is not from a "regionally" accredited high school -- regardless whether it's of the online or in-classroom type -- then one ends-up with a high school diploma that won't be accepted in most places, for most purposes.
In the US, all high school diplomas MUST be from "regionally" accredited high schools, regardless whether they're of the online or in-classroom type. Period.
If you get kicked-out of high school, or drop-out; and then if you can't get back in; or if you can, but at another high school that will see what happend on your transcript and may then somehow hold it against you...
...then, by all means, stop beating your head against the wall and just sign-up with a regionally-accredited online high school, and finish your high school studies while sitting -- even in your underwear, if you like -- at your computer.
As long as the online high school is "regionally" (and not "nationally") accredited, then its diploma, when you finally graduate, will be just as acceptable, for any and all purposes for which a high school diploma is required in life, as the one you would have earned from the high school you either got kicked-out of, or that you dropped-out of.
So, relax. Everything'll be fine. Just don't get ripped-off by a diploma mill; and the way you do that is by ensuring that the school in which you enroll is, indeed, "regionally" accredited. And never take the school's word for it. Always hunt-down-like-a-dog the website of the regional accreditor that covers the state in which the online high school is geographically located, and verify that said school is, indeed, regionally accredited.
And if a school is both regionally and nationally accredited (like Ashworth's James Madison, for example) fear not. My saying, earlier, herein, that only "regional" accreditation will do does not preclude a school from being both. As long as the school's at least "regionally" accredited, then it's perfectly fine if it's also "nationally" accredited. Just make sure that it's not only nationally accredited.
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