Competency tests no longer required, so get your diploma

From Staff Reports

Published: November 8, 2009

The N.C. General Assembly has eliminated the High School Competency Tests in reading and mathematics and the computer skills test. All currently enrolled public school students who have not met proficiency on those tests are no longer required to meet competency or computer skills standards to graduate.
The new rule is retroactive all the way back to the origination of the competency test back in the early 1980s.
Because of this ruling, former students who met all state and local graduation requirements during the time they were enrolled but did not receive a diploma because of not achieving proficiency on the North Carolina reading and mathematics competency tests or the North Carolina computer skills test may now petition their former high school for their diploma.
Former Titans who wish to petition may contact the counseling office at McDowell High School at 652-7920 for more information.