AF Amistad High School Family Handbook 2017-2018 | 41 scholar did not meet the requirements for promotion to fourth grade and should be a third grader when enrolling in the new school. Community Service All students at AFAHS are required to complete 40 hours of community service by the time they graduate. All of these hours must be logged with the school and are tracked on Infinite Campus. AFAHS recommends that scholars complete a portion of their community service hours during each of the four years they are enrolled, at an average of 10 hours per year. Community service done as restitution to the school or to the community as a result of a disciplinary action does not count towards the community service graduation requirement. Repeated Courses A student may not earn credits for taking the same course twice. For example, if a student took takes Literature I and passes the course, he or she earns one credit. If the student fails two other academic courses, however, and has to repeat the ninth grade, he or she will not earn a second credit for passing Literature I a second time. When a student is retained, the grades for the courses he took during his first year in that grade will remain visible on the student’s transcript but will no longer bear weight on the student’s GPA. The grades the student earns during his second year in that grade will be visible on the transcript and will bear weight on the student’s cumulative GPA. Students who fail to meet promotional requirements will repeat the full complement of courses for the grade failed. For example, a ninth-grade student who does not meet promotional requirements to move up to tenth-grade status will take ninth-grade literature, composition, math, science, college readiness and history and will be assigned to a ninth-grade advisory regardless of whether he/she passed any of these courses the previous year. The only exception to this policy is in the case of mathematics courses. The administration may allow a student to progress to the next level of math course, despite being retained, if the student’s performance in the previous year’s math course is so stellar as to warrant advancement to the next course in the school’s sequence of courses. Repeated courses do not count towards graduation requirements. Students who have 15 or more absences in an academic year are in danger of non-promotion, and will receive communication from the school of this concern. 10 absences in a school year is considered truant by the State of Connecticut and the school is obligated to file truancy reports for students who exceed this maximum number of absences. All promotion decisions are contingent on the students progression towards graduation based on the school’s graduation requirements, both academic and non-academic. A summary of grade-level promotion policies follows.