Health B, a repeat of health A

[Anonymous]

Who advocated for Health B to make the state add this requirement starting with the class of 2025? How can the decision be reversed to drop Health B requirement? or add Financial Literacy to Health B? or to allow students to take an additional PE, Art or Tech class?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree, Health A was a huge waste of time. We are doing Health B next session and not looking forward to it. At least do new material.

Disagree. This is where MCPS teaches kids that anyone can be a woman. This is very important work.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who advocated for Health B to make the state add this requirement starting with the class of 2025? How can the decision be reversed to drop Health B requirement? or add Financial Literacy to Health B? or to allow students to take an additional PE, Art or Tech class?

It was the recommendation of a state task force in 2019.

https://www.marylandpublicschools.org/stateboard/Documents/12032019/TabG-HSTaskForce-GraduationHealthTechnology.pdf

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Anonymous wrote:It is around 90 assignments in 3 weeks. Some of them more onerous than others

My kid just counted their assignments for Health B. There are 42 total.

Health A was similar.

You're full of it, PP.

I haven't counted, but my kid is doing closer to 90 than 42. Not difficult, but she works hours and hours each day. Of course, she's the kind of kid who has to do everything 'well.' I've been trying to get her to work more efficiently (which is, frankly, slacking off a bit when you have close to 100%) but she won't have anything of it.

Not 92, but there are 4-6 a day, and some are pretty lengthy.

If your kid can't hack something has easy has Health in 3 weeks, it doesn't bode well for her ability to take Honors and AP courses.
Get your kid the help she needs instead of thinking it's someone else's fault.

I’m a different poster. My oldest just graduated so only had to take health A but taking that during summer was probably the worst experience in McPS — just painful stupid busy work. She did very well in all her advanced and AP classes and is gojng to an excellent college where she may study a health related field but she still jokes about what a total waste of time that health class was,.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Agree that this was without a doubt one of the dumbest things the state has done with respect of education. The idea that so many kids are ruining their summers taking this crap just makes me mad. And so many take it during summers so they don’t give up the opportunity to actually learn something during the school year. Look, kids who want to learn! And we punish them by taking away their summer. I’m not sure who to write to campaign to get rid of this—clearly no one is happy with it. Even the teachers think it is dumb. They should allow kids to test out of it, or substitute AP Psych or Yoga.

+1

My DD who is very detail oriented, has been spending 2-4 hrs a day doing assignments from Health A, and now, Health B. It is really terrible and the cost is crazy too..especially if there are so many students interested, they should lower the cost. There are almost 60kids in DD’s zoom class.
Why can’t they just do an extra period for students who want to take extra class or elective? Then no one would bother doing so much during the summer.

OK, this poster is the troll who has been posting nonsense on this thread. No summer course in MCPS has 60 students. There aren't 90 assignments.

Probably a disgruntled teen taking the course.

Taking a break from Insta, PP? Do your health homework.

This sounds like my kid's experience. I'll admit that most of the time she seems to be working in front of the tv, so surely that slows her down. But she spends at least 3 and maybe more hours a day on homework. I've tried giving her pointers to speed things up. And I wouldn't be surprised if there are 60 students in a zoom. She said there are two teachers with different classes (she thinks they are husband/wife) and they are kind of team-teaching so one teaches sometimes and the other teaches other times. (She told me this in annoyance because she needed to speak with her own teacher about an assignment and her assigned teacher wasn't in the zoom.). I don't personally object-- more power to them to find a way to do this efficiently and aside from this specific question, there doesn't seem to be a downside to having more kids in the zoom. But that would amount to 60 kids in a single zoom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is around 90 assignments in 3 weeks. Some of them more onerous than others

My kid just counted their assignments for Health B. There are 42 total.

Health A was similar.

You're full of it, PP.

I haven't counted, but my kid is doing closer to 90 than 42. Not difficult, but she works hours and hours each day. Of course, she's the kind of kid who has to do everything 'well.' I've been trying to get her to work more efficiently (which is, frankly, slacking off a bit when you have close to 100%) but she won't have anything of it.

Not 92, but there are 4-6 a day, and some are pretty lengthy.

If your kid can't hack something has easy has Health in 3 weeks, it doesn't bode well for her ability to take Honors and AP courses.
Get your kid the help she needs instead of thinking it's someone else's fault.

I’m a different poster. My oldest just graduated so only had to take health A but taking that during summer was probably the worst experience in McPS — just painful stupid busy work. She did very well in all her advanced and AP classes and is gojng to an excellent college where she may study a health related field but she still jokes about what a total waste of time that health class was,.

The curriculum is really poorly done by central office in 2022. Half the links don’t work. The assignments are poorly written. Very little is about true health.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Agree that this was without a doubt one of the dumbest things the state has done with respect of education. The idea that so many kids are ruining their summers taking this crap just makes me mad. And so many take it during summers so they don’t give up the opportunity to actually learn something during the school year. Look, kids who want to learn! And we punish them by taking away their summer. I’m not sure who to write to campaign to get rid of this—clearly no one is happy with it. Even the teachers think it is dumb. They should allow kids to test out of it, or substitute AP Psych or Yoga.

+1

My DD who is very detail oriented, has been spending 2-4 hrs a day doing assignments from Health A, and now, Health B. It is really terrible and the cost is crazy too..especially if there are so many students interested, they should lower the cost. There are almost 60kids in DD’s zoom class.
Why can’t they just do an extra period for students who want to take extra class or elective? Then no one would bother doing so much during the summer.

OK, this poster is the troll who has been posting nonsense on this thread. No summer course in MCPS has 60 students. There aren't 90 assignments.

Probably a disgruntled teen taking the course.

Taking a break from Insta, PP? Do your health homework.

This sounds like my kid's experience. I'll admit that most of the time she seems to be working in front of the tv, so surely that slows her down. But she spends at least 3 and maybe more hours a day on homework. I've tried giving her pointers to speed things up. And I wouldn't be surprised if there are 60 students in a zoom. She said there are two teachers with different classes (she thinks they are husband/wife) and they are kind of team-teaching so one teaches sometimes and the other teaches other times. (She told me this in annoyance because she needed to speak with her own teacher about an assignment and her assigned teacher wasn't in the zoom.). I don't personally object-- more power to them to find a way to do this efficiently and aside from this specific question, there doesn't seem to be a downside to having more kids in the zoom. But that would amount to 60 kids in a single zoom.

That’s weird. Ours is not like that at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree that this was without a doubt one of the dumbest things the state has done with respect of education. The idea that so many kids are ruining their summers taking this crap just makes me mad. And so many take it during summers so they don’t give up the opportunity to actually learn something during the school year. Look, kids who want to learn! And we punish them by taking away their summer. I’m not sure who to write to campaign to get rid of this—clearly no one is happy with it. Even the teachers think it is dumb. They should allow kids to test out of it, or substitute AP Psych or Yoga.

+1

My DD who is very detail oriented, has been spending 2-4 hrs a day doing assignments from Health A, and now, Health B. It is really terrible and the cost is crazy too..especially if there are so many students interested, they should lower the cost. There are almost 60kids in DD’s zoom class.
Why can’t they just do an extra period for students who want to take extra class or elective? Then no one would bother doing so much during the summer.

OK, this poster is the troll who has been posting nonsense on this thread. No summer course in MCPS has 60 students. There aren't 90 assignments.

Probably a disgruntled teen taking the course.

Taking a break from Insta, PP? Do your health homework.

This sounds like my kid's experience. I'll admit that most of the time she seems to be working in front of the tv, so surely that slows her down. But she spends at least 3 and maybe more hours a day on homework. I've tried giving her pointers to speed things up. And I wouldn't be surprised if there are 60 students in a zoom. She said there are two teachers with different classes (she thinks they are husband/wife) and they are kind of team-teaching so one teaches sometimes and the other teaches other times. (She told me this in annoyance because she needed to speak with her own teacher about an assignment and her assigned teacher wasn't in the zoom.). I don't personally object-- more power to them to find a way to do this efficiently and aside from this specific question, there doesn't seem to be a downside to having more kids in the zoom. But that would amount to 60 kids in a single zoom.

That is simply not allowed in MCPS. Stop posting disinformation. I bet you're the same troll, with a different story.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Agree that this was without a doubt one of the dumbest things the state has done with respect of education. The idea that so many kids are ruining their summers taking this crap just makes me mad. And so many take it during summers so they don’t give up the opportunity to actually learn something during the school year. Look, kids who want to learn! And we punish them by taking away their summer. I’m not sure who to write to campaign to get rid of this—clearly no one is happy with it. Even the teachers think it is dumb. They should allow kids to test out of it, or substitute AP Psych or Yoga.

+1

My DD who is very detail oriented, has been spending 2-4 hrs a day doing assignments from Health A, and now, Health B. It is really terrible and the cost is crazy too..especially if there are so many students interested, they should lower the cost. There are almost 60kids in DD’s zoom class.
Why can’t they just do an extra period for students who want to take extra class or elective? Then no one would bother doing so much during the summer.

OK, this poster is the troll who has been posting nonsense on this thread. No summer course in MCPS has 60 students. There aren't 90 assignments.

Probably a disgruntled teen taking the course.

Taking a break from Insta, PP? Do your health homework.

This sounds like my kid's experience. I'll admit that most of the time she seems to be working in front of the tv, so surely that slows her down. But she spends at least 3 and maybe more hours a day on homework. I've tried giving her pointers to speed things up. And I wouldn't be surprised if there are 60 students in a zoom. She said there are two teachers with different classes (she thinks they are husband/wife) and they are kind of team-teaching so one teaches sometimes and the other teaches other times. (She told me this in annoyance because she needed to speak with her own teacher about an assignment and her assigned teacher wasn't in the zoom.). I don't personally object-- more power to them to find a way to do this efficiently and aside from this specific question, there doesn't seem to be a downside to having more kids in the zoom. But that would amount to 60 kids in a single zoom.

That is simply not allowed in MCPS. Stop posting disinformation. I bet you're the same troll, with a different story.

It could be true. Not how our class is though.