I don’t know for certain but I think if the school already gave you a diploma, they can’t take it back.

I have heard of situations in tv shows where a person who never got their diploma go back and finish so they can get a particular job or promotion. I could see that happening. I think for adults, they have highschool equivalency courses.

LOL, if my high school called me and told me I had to come back and take another class or they would revoke my diploma, I’d laugh my ass off and tell them to go fuck themselves. I have a masters at this point—pretty sure my higher degrees don’t become invalid just because my H.S. diploma is suddenly voided on a technicality.

Once you graduate they won’t undo it. That paperwork is moreorless Final.

My grandfather had that happen with his masters degree, they never scheduled him one of the required math courses for his degree(he always went through the advisors office to schedule), and had told him he was all set to apply for graduation, so he did and they just blindly signed off on it. It wasn’t found out till after everything was finalized but they basically said “yea that’s on us, enjoy the degree”

I didn’t finish high school until I was 35. I went back to college and needed to upgrade on mark. I had failed two classes needed to graduate due to a poor home-life. (I missed a lot of school and barely handed in work - had 35% in the class, got 75% on the exam - did not reach a passing grade. In both classes!)

I only needed one of the two to get in to my program, but I just went ahead and did them both to get my diploma while I was at it.

It was English and social studies that I needed to graduate, so it wasn’t too hard. Where I live you can challenge the exams for free if you’ve been out of school for more than two years. So I did a 2-day exam prep course (at $90 each) with a bunch of high schoolers before each one. Got 89% on each exam, got my diploma in the mail like a month later. 😎

Who is “they”?

Nope. I could have graduated as a junior had they let me take a single class that was “Only available to seniors.”

The class was 1 semester and dealt with reading a copy of Newsweek. It was junk. I made them pay for it. Because I had already maxed out their computer program the school district sent me to the local community college for free.

My buddy was missing some needed pre-requisites for his program. But the college offers the same or equivalent classes. Just turned into an extra semester of work for him at the college.

TIL this is a wide-spread recurring nightmare/dream…

I haven’t had one of these in a long time. I was a kind of crap high school student and even got my GED so I could attend classes at a community college and transfer to a four-year university. I now have a master’s and I don’t think I’ve had one of these nightmares since graduating and entering into my profession. But while in college and grad school I had these frequently!

The whole idea is preposterous of course. They would never Billy Madison us for a clerical error on their part.

That happend to me, I studeid Englis literachure and endid up as a Highscool techer. But I failed severel coursis in Highscool myself, but dew to an administrativ eror, this went unnoticed for a long tyme… untill I met my old techer agen. She sed she had reportid me, but the skool didn’t take any action!

I actually have a GED

I got dragged into a fight where I defended myself and then I got arrested… (charges later dropped) so I just hated that school…

So easy, didn’t even need to study (no classes required, you just take a test, that simple), passed first time… it’s 4 separate test categories, I went two separate times, each time taking two subjects (I mean I coumd probably just marathon through it all, but didn’t wanna be overwhelmed). They don’t really have actual test centers run by the GED thing, they just tell you to go to a place they approved (e.g: a local city-university campus) and they have a computerlab and they sign you in to the online test… and you have to put all your belongings in a locker outside (especially phones)

So I passed them with “college ready” scores or whatever it even means…

(My school also did like night school for adults if they have like partial credits and they can finish school that way)

Since this was like Covid era, SAT requirements were dropped so Penn State accepted me with just the GED…

But then Depression fucked up my life…

AAAHHH fucking brain chemicals man, life sucks…

Also I’m Asian… really broke the sterotype of academic success… I don’t feel so Asian anymore :/

Oh btw about the dreams… I actually dream about Elementary School more…

Cuz my early memories of being this 8 year old Chinese kid new in America… I think I have a “younger me” trapped inside my mind that is still hiding in there, still feel scared of the world…

it’d depend on your local laws and rules. generally there’s a cut off age for completing high school, and once you’re past it you have to GED.

No high school would undo a diploma. Once issued, they have other things to work on and it isn’t a high priority.

Anyone in the workforce wouldn’t be affected if they did have their diploma rescinded as they already have work experience and nobody really cares about a high school diploma except as a formality.

So it wouldn’t happen and it would not matter if it did.

Go to Adult Education and finish your credits needed to get highschool diploma.

In reality, if you needed something to graduate, they would mention it before graduation. If somehow they missed it and sent you the diploma anyway, there’s no way anyone would care enough to make you come back (unless maybe if you REALLY pissed off somebody very important prior to the discovery.)

Youd have to take the GED
But without pants on.