Summer personal finance 2023

[Anonymous]

The schedule is up. June 5-June 28 is the only option.

Didn’t there used to be two sessions?

DD is counting on doing it this summer. We have a big family trip booked for a week in June.

Also, why do they overlap the “summer” course with school? DD will have some final exams and projects. She has ADHD. This is not a good set up for her and many others at all.

FML

[Anonymous]

This is OP. Looks like there is a typo and it’s JULY 28.

Much better!

Any experience on this recent version and how long it actually takes? I know the old version was easy peasy, but then they made it much more time consuming.

[Anonymous]

It’s all self paced so if your child is still busy with school or away for a week they can just not work on it that week.

[Anonymous]

It’s P/F so you only need to out in a minimum of effort. Once my kid had earned enough points to pass, she didn’t worry about spending too much time reading or doing retakes on any modules (I think you get 3 attempts on each) and still ends up with a pretty good grade. She took the session that overlapped school since she took another course that summer; the self pacing made it easy to schedule around other assignments.

[Anonymous]

Isn’t there a spring running, too? My DD took the spring running and it was fine (even with APs and finals). It’s self-paced.

[Anonymous]

it is self paced but they still need to do all 130+ exit tickets. the course is not as easy as eveyone says.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:it is self paced but they still need to do all 130+ exit tickets. the course is not as easy as eveyone says.

It definitely takes a while, but a week break for a family trip will be fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:it is self paced but they still need to do all 130+ exit tickets. the course is not as easy as eveyone says.

Thank you - I’m OP. This is the type of response I’m looking for. Any insight into how painful this might be? My student really struggled with online school. I’m thinking she might need small rewards for certain milestones (she has ADHD and slow processing speed).

She does better during the school year when she can fit an art class in. So she’s motivated for that reason to get this class done.

[Anonymous]

They changed the course a couple years ago so now you must complete all the exit tickets even if you have enough points to pass. Very time consuming and difficult vocabulary and concepts. Too much detail for a young person. Don’t try to learn it all- just skim the material so you can pass the exit tickets. Also you get three chances on each exit ticket.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s P/F so you only need to out in a minimum of effort. Once my kid had earned enough points to pass, she didn’t worry about spending too much time reading or doing retakes on any modules (I think you get 3 attempts on each) and still ends up with a pretty good grade. She took the session that overlapped school since she took another course that summer; the self pacing made it easy to schedule around other assignments.

It is NO LONGER like this. “Grading for this course is pass/fail. Students must have an overall average of 64% or higher on the 140 Exit Tickets, 14 Module Tests, and Final exam to pass to the course. ALL 140 Exit Tickets, 14 Module Tests, and Final exam are mandatory regardless of reaching the minimum number of points prior to completing all the required assignments”. The way it is set up now you must take each exit ticket to proceed to the next followed by tests for each section. I also believe the start date is “ most likely” June 25 end date is July 29th. Last year summer dates were June 27-July 29

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:it is self paced but they still need to do all 130+ exit tickets. the course is not as easy as eveyone says.

It definitely takes a while, but a week break for a family trip will be fine.

My DD took this class and brought her laptop in vacation. Doing an hour a day during down time didn’t negatively impact our vacation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s P/F so you only need to out in a minimum of effort. Once my kid had earned enough points to pass, she didn’t worry about spending too much time reading or doing retakes on any modules (I think you get 3 attempts on each) and still ends up with a pretty good grade. She took the session that overlapped school since she took another course that summer; the self pacing made it easy to schedule around other assignments.

It is NO LONGER like this. “Grading for this course is pass/fail. Students must have an overall average of 64% or higher on the 140 Exit Tickets, 14 Module Tests, and Final exam to pass to the course. ALL 140 Exit Tickets, 14 Module Tests, and Final exam are mandatory regardless of reaching the minimum number of points prior to completing all the required assignments”. The way it is set up now you must take each exit ticket to proceed to the next followed by tests for each section. I also believe the start date is “ most likely” June 25 end date is July 29th. Last year summer dates were June 27-July 29

I have one kid who took it with the old curriculum and one with the new. It is definitely more work with the new curriculum, but still not a ton of work. The 3 retakes makes it pretty easy because all true/false questions that are wrong, are easily fixed to the right answer on the second retake. I have pretty self motivated kids and both finished well in advance of the final date of the class. The one that took it last summer finished about 3.5 weeks ahead of time. I think it started in April - or at least a month+ before school got out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s P/F so you only need to out in a minimum of effort. Once my kid had earned enough points to pass, she didn’t worry about spending too much time reading or doing retakes on any modules (I think you get 3 attempts on each) and still ends up with a pretty good grade. She took the session that overlapped school since she took another course that summer; the self pacing made it easy to schedule around other assignments.

It is NO LONGER like this. “Grading for this course is pass/fail. Students must have an overall average of 64% or higher on the 140 Exit Tickets, 14 Module Tests, and Final exam to pass to the course. ALL 140 Exit Tickets, 14 Module Tests, and Final exam are mandatory regardless of reaching the minimum number of points prior to completing all the required assignments”. The way it is set up now you must take each exit ticket to proceed to the next followed by tests for each section. I also believe the start date is “ most likely” June 25 end date is July 29th. Last year summer dates were June 27-July 29

I’m the pp you quoted and I never said my kid didn’t attempt every exit ticket. She did. I said that she put in a minimum of effort once she had enough points to pass, meaning she didn’t spend a lot of time on the lessons and just did each ticket once without caring about the grade so it didn’t matter if she guessed and/or got answers wrong (you don’t need to pass each individual ticket, just the course as a whole).

[Anonymous]

This course(if taken online) will also count towards the now required virtual course needed to get diploma.

[Anonymous]

Because it’s not about just her and your rich family wants.