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Can A Minor With An Aa Degree Be "truant"?

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Can a minor with a duly conferred Associate of Arts (college) degree be "truant" from High School?

Location: Michigan

I am 15.

I was a dual enrolled high school - community college student. I was conferred with an AA by the CC. In granting my AA the CC accepted all of my HS classes and says that I have "the equivalent" of a HS diploma. The HS . . . well . . . taken together, my counselor, the principal, busar, and registrar disagree.

I have not been grated a HS diploma and was reported to the county as a truant by the HS.

My HS counselor signed every form for every class I took both at the HS and at the CC.

The busar (correctly) points out that I paid for some of my CC classes while the HS paid for others.

The principal says the counselor erred, and lacked the authority to approve CC classes that I paid for.

The registrar says that I completed all classes that I have taken at both the HS and CC with passing grades. And that I have taken all of the classes required to graduate HS. But the HS cannot count the CC classes that I paid for towards my HS diploma.

My parents think this is all just terribly funny, that I should just ignore it, and chalk it up as an example of how bureaucracies fail to function.

Some friends have said that should I be cited I should simply take my degree and both transcripts to the court.

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