Some have such a high equivalency with GCSEs that pupils could conceivably take one of these qualifications, plus English and maths GCSE, to be counted for the school benchmark of five good GCSEs including English and maths.
After receiving no formal education past elementary school, he recently passed Ontario's tenth grade high school equivalency exams, scoring higher than 90percentt in all subjects.
The new programs, costing a total of $8 million, all lead to regular high school diplomas rather than high school equivalency, or G.E.D., degrees.
Instead, she dropped out of high school, got a GED (a high-school equivalency diploma) and worked in a series of "dead end jobs".
She dropped out of high school and later got her high school equivalency diploma at age 17. "Life educated me, honey," Ms. Rodriguez said in a phone interview.
Adrian Rivera said his older sister dropped out of high school, although she later earned her high school equivalency diploma.
Three dropped out of high school altogether and are working on high school equivalency diplomas, said Mr. Verrilli -- "the ones that break our hearts".
The officials there suggested a high school equivalency program, but he was determined to get a high school diploma.
He left high school with only a partial degree and later earned a high school equivalency diploma.
For while some enroll, at least briefly, in high school equivalency programs, few will ever get an equivalency degree or a high school diploma.
