My granddaughter is a senior and attends school from 9am to 1:30pm.
Daughter says it's to give seniors time for college courses or to work.
The college courses don't start til next semester and she is not working.

My senior year I was taking a fullloadof courses. Any open period of requiring a course that was required graduation had to be filled with some other course. School started at 8am and continued until 3:30pm.

So how does Texas School a get by with half days for seniors?

I had half days when I was a senior. Had two off periods and they both fell after lunch so worked out really well. I'm not sure why you see this as a problem seems like a good chance for her to get a job

Most HS Seniors actually have enough credits to graduate by halfway through their Sr year, especially if they are taking AP classes. I know I did back in 1980.
Different Districts have different scheduling rules.

My senior year, 2nd semester, I had swimming as homeroom and 1st period, and had an English AP class for 2nd period. Nothing past that. Was done with school by 10:30 every day.

My daughter is a senior, she starts school at 7:30 and then gets off at 11 for the work program. If she wasn't in the work program, she would have a full day of classes, but she only needs 2 more credits to graduate.

In HI we only went to high school half days, odds one day and evens the next. Started at 0800 and ended at 1230.




Yep, I started my Senior year only needing 3 classes to graduate

My question is, how did you ever graduate?

I don�t understand how this is confusing.

This was exactly my situation in 1973. I took college classes in 3 of the afternoons and voluntarily stayed over in my drafting class to improve my skills the other 2 days. Thought I might want to use that somewhere on my career path. AutoCAD put those skills obsolete quick enough. And I worked part time at Piggly Wiggly. I can still hand letter pretty good when i want to so i guess that's handy once in a while.

Free hand drafting is a lost art

They still make people learn it in conjunction with autoCAD and the other software programs. My wife and a buddy of mine both complained about it when they were in grad school for landscape architecture and some sort of engineering, respectively.

I had Ag mechanics for first 2 periods, study hall, English 3, lunch then 3 periods of building trades. off last period to go to work at the Piggly Wiggly. Senior year was a breeze. wish I could remember some of it.

You�re just jealous that I look better in a speedo than you do

Bet. I raised a ton of cash at the SPJST charity car wash last week.

School has sure change since I was in school. I had to stay all day until it was over for the day.

I just submitted my 2nd provisional patent which requires drawings to be included. I pulled out all my 7th grade drafting skills and went to town. They were not too bad and I would guess I would've got a C- if it was turned in.

I guess those one room school house teachers were tough!

My senior year I had finished about 1/3 of the way into the year. I took wood shop and metal shop and pretty much had the rest of the day off.

I took auto shop one semester

I was given a 4 gal Rochester carb off of some junk v-8 that was getting overhauled

Was given the carb and a rebuild kit.

Told to take it apart and put it back together.

If it worked I'd get an A

I got the A

Mechanical skills are not taught anymore.

I always hated working on Q-jets. Have a buddy that used to be able to take them apart and put them back together in his sleep.

Derek does all my carb work. Natty light will clean a carb in no time flat.

Times have changed gramps, catch up ol' geezer