my daughter is in the 10th grade and we just submitted her schedule for her classes for the 11th grade. in her high school i do not see how they can graduate early because the required classes like math, english, science are all year long courses. the students need 4 credits of english so thats 1 english class starting in the 9th grade. plus they have what they call career path electives requiremets that have to be meet for the diploma. so even in her senior year she will have a full load of classes.
its not like when i was in high school, my second semester of senior year i had all but .5 credits so i was i was pretty much done with high school classes.