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It's better than not having one for sure...what kind of loser can't get a HS diploma these days...if your warm and breathing they pass em out to ya. I worked as a sub-teacher at the HS level as a part-time job. I was a fly on the wall so to speak and could observe things first hand in a coupla of my local districts. One thing it didn't make much difference between a good school and a poor school, they were about the same. I had classes where 70 to 80 % were getting D's and F's. Write a coherent sentence or paragraph haaa....At lunch one day I heard the math teachers talking about how the district I was working in is going to get a big surprise because about 70% of the kids couldn't pass Algebra. In CA passing Algebra is a requirment for graduation. I asked a counselor at one paticular HS what % of Freshmen don't graduate..he said about 60%.