You’ll think I’m making this up…. Part of our faculty meeting yesterday went something like this:

Beginning in the fall of 2007 there is a new graduation requirement for health and physical education. The new course is called HOPE. We will have to offer HOPE to ninth graders beginning next year. Current students will continue under the old requirements so we will not offer HOPE to them. The curriculum is still in draft form so we don’t know for certain what HOPE includes. It won’t be ready in time to offer HOPE in summer school (when many students opt to take the current health and P.E. requirements).

So there will be HOPE for ninth graders in the fall even though we don’t know what that means, there will be no HOPE for current students at all, and there won’t be any HOPE for summer school until next year.

Yes, there really is such a course requirement (Health Opportunities through Physical Education). And the administrator that was speaking intended to make light of the situation. That’s just as well, since we have too many disgruntled people around there right now. But that’s another story.

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