APS - taking electives at career center

[Anonymous]

I realize this is a question best directed to APS, but at the moment it’s become a stupid battle in my house following the Yorktown academic planning session that I want to end before bedtime.

If a student at one of the neighborhood high schools wants to take an elective at the career center, do they have to give up another elective period for transportation to/from their base high school? There was conflicting information on this given during break out sessions. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

Go to the YHS Career and Technical Education page on the YHS website. Last sentence states: Students attending the career center must allow an extra period for travel time.

I would double check though to make sure that’s correct.

[Anonymous]

I don’t know the answer to that But I found that session pretty frustrating. The counselors use a ton of acronyms, and expect that we have the same level of understanding as they do. If parents felt overwhelmed (a few have said via text), I can only imagine how our children must feel through this process. E.g. requiring kids to take sequential electives so it prepares them for their focus in college seems opposite of what should be happening in high school. They should be taking many different electives to determine what they may want to study after high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know the answer to that But I found that session pretty frustrating. The counselors use a ton of acronyms, and expect that we have the same level of understanding as they do. If parents felt overwhelmed (a few have said via text), I can only imagine how our children must feel through this process. E.g. requiring kids to take sequential electives so it prepares them for their focus in college seems opposite of what should be happening in high school. They should be taking many different electives to determine what they may want to study after high school.

Totally agree. I don't know why the state added this requirement. Let them experiment. If they find something they like they can take the 2nd year. Glad my son finished HS before this requirement started and my DD gets around it by being in band.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know the answer to that But I found that session pretty frustrating. The counselors use a ton of acronyms, and expect that we have the same level of understanding as they do. If parents felt overwhelmed (a few have said via text), I can only imagine how our children must feel through this process. E.g. requiring kids to take sequential electives so it prepares them for their focus in college seems opposite of what should be happening in high school. They should be taking many different electives to determine what they may want to study after high school.

Totally agree. I don't know why the state added this requirement. Let them experiment. If they find something they like they can take the 2nd year. Glad my son finished HS before this requirement started and my DD gets around it by being in band.

Maybe. I asked about the sequential required and the fine arts requirement being for the same class and they couldn't give me a straight answer. So, your kid could take ceramics or band 1 & 2 and that's sequential, but then they *may* not count it for fine arts. It's ridiculous. Add in that you have to add econ, spend 10th grade taking a history class as an elective, are essentially forced to use an elective spot for your AP science lab and have unequal offerings in the major world languages.......It's driving me nuts. I will reach out to the counselor, but I've never received much help from them at.all. Also, why wasn't a department chair moderating our breakout room?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go to the YHS Career and Technical Education page on the YHS website. Last sentence states: Students attending the career center must allow an extra period for travel time.

I would double check though to make sure that’s correct.

What about a class that class says: Full year, two periods?
Does that mean they need 3 periods for the class?? As in, they will be at CC everyday for periods 1, 2 & 3?

[Anonymous]

Someone asked on the chat about whether you had to allot 2 periods for AP science- for the lab. They said you have to do that for all APs. Huh? For AP Econ, AP Calc, AP Psych? Really? The whole thing seems like a puzzle to figure out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Someone asked on the chat about whether you had to allot 2 periods for AP science- for the lab. They said you have to do that for all APs. Huh? For AP Econ, AP Calc, AP Psych? Really? The whole thing seems like a puzzle to figure out.

I think they meant for all AP sciences.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone asked on the chat about whether you had to allot 2 periods for AP science- for the lab. They said you have to do that for all APs. Huh? For AP Econ, AP Calc, AP Psych? Really? The whole thing seems like a puzzle to figure out.

I think they meant for all AP sciences.

Thank you - that makes much more sense!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know the answer to that But I found that session pretty frustrating. The counselors use a ton of acronyms, and expect that we have the same level of understanding as they do. If parents felt overwhelmed (a few have said via text), I can only imagine how our children must feel through this process. E.g. requiring kids to take sequential electives so it prepares them for their focus in college seems opposite of what should be happening in high school. They should be taking many different electives to determine what they may want to study after high school.

Totally agree. I don't know why the state added this requirement. Let them experiment. If they find something they like they can take the 2nd year. Glad my son finished HS before this requirement started and my DD gets around it by being in band.

Maybe. I asked about the sequential required and the fine arts requirement being for the same class and they couldn't give me a straight answer. So, your kid could take ceramics or band 1 & 2 and that's sequential, but then they *may* not count it for fine arts. It's ridiculous. Add in that you have to add econ, spend 10th grade taking a history class as an elective, are essentially forced to use an elective spot for your AP science lab and have unequal offerings in the major world languages.......It's driving me nuts. I will reach out to the counselor, but I've never received much help from them at.all. Also, why wasn't a department chair moderating our breakout room?

I would talk with your specific counselor. As I understand it they are the one who has to check off that the requirement is fulfilled and my kids' counselor at W-L said band counted to fulfill it even though she's been in essentially "Band 2", the higher level band, for all 4 years. She did end up taking an additional art class in 12th grade just for fun but did not need it to meet requirements (but does have senior classmates who are in the class for that reason). It is ridiculous that this is not stated clearly and that different people get different answers!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Someone asked on the chat about whether you had to allot 2 periods for AP science- for the lab. They said you have to do that for all APs. Huh? For AP Econ, AP Calc, AP Psych? Really? The whole thing seems like a puzzle to figure out.

I think they meant for all AP sciences.

Thank you - that makes much more sense!

yes, it's just for the AP sciences (psych is a social studies class).

for the OP, a career center classes takes two periods out of their schedule

- yhs teacher

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t know the answer to that But I found that session pretty frustrating. The counselors use a ton of acronyms, and expect that we have the same level of understanding as they do. If parents felt overwhelmed (a few have said via text), I can only imagine how our children must feel through this process. E.g. requiring kids to take sequential electives so it prepares them for their focus in college seems opposite of what should be happening in high school. They should be taking many different electives to determine what they may want to study after high school.

Totally agree. I don't know why the state added this requirement. Let them experiment. If they find something they like they can take the 2nd year. Glad my son finished HS before this requirement started and my DD gets around it by being in band.

Maybe. I asked about the sequential required and the fine arts requirement being for the same class and they couldn't give me a straight answer. So, your kid could take ceramics or band 1 & 2 and that's sequential, but then they *may* not count it for fine arts. It's ridiculous. Add in that you have to add econ, spend 10th grade taking a history class as an elective, are essentially forced to use an elective spot for your AP science lab and have unequal offerings in the major world languages.......It's driving me nuts. I will reach out to the counselor, but I've never received much help from them at.all. Also, why wasn't a department chair moderating our breakout room?

in 10th grade, social studies is optional. students are not required to take it as an elective (same YHS teacher as above)

[Anonymous]

While students are technically not required to take social studies in 10th grade, almost everyone takes one of three AP offerings because they don’t want to look bad when being compared against their peers for college admission. It is technically an elective, but practically speaking, it’s not elective.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go to the YHS Career and Technical Education page on the YHS website. Last sentence states: Students attending the career center must allow an extra period for travel time.

I would double check though to make sure that’s correct.

What about a class that class says: Full year, two periods?
Does that mean they need 3 periods for the class?? As in, they will be at CC everyday for periods 1, 2 & 3?

Does anyone know this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:While students are technically not required to take social studies in 10th grade, almost everyone takes one of three AP offerings because they don’t want to look bad when being compared against their peers for college admission. It is technically an elective, but practically speaking, it’s not elective.

At W-L it seems the higher achieving kids generally take AP Government in 10th since that is required of the kids who are in the IB program (government is a state requirement and there is no room for it in the IB 11th-12th program). My kids didn't do full IB but still wanted to take AP Gov in 10th since that's what their friends were doing.