summer health elective

[Anonymous]

We are new to MCPS for 9th grade next year. Some friends have told us our DC should take Health A in the summer to free up room in their schedule. Is this a good plan and do many kids do it in the summer between 8th and 9th grade? Is this a virtual class? Thank you !

[Anonymous]

From what I remember you can't do it until the summer before 10th grade.

[Anonymous]

So, now health is an entire year if you take it during the school year - so it takes up ALOT of the schedule. My kid has Band, AP requirements, and general things they want to take before graduating that do not include health. Their summer plans also never lined up with the summer schedule. So now they are taking it virtually one evening a week for spring semester in junior year - DC says its not difficult - there are homework assignments but it's not hard or that time-consuming.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are new to MCPS for 9th grade next year. Some friends have told us our DC should take Health A in the summer to free up room in their schedule. Is this a good plan and do many kids do it in the summer between 8th and 9th grade? Is this a virtual class? Thank you !

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[Anonymous]

I think in the past when there was only 1 semester of health many kids did this to fit a full year class in. Now that health has two parts , it is probably not as big a deal. You would just take both parts and not have to find a half year class to take.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We are new to MCPS for 9th grade next year. Some friends have told us our DC should take Health A in the summer to free up room in their schedule. Is this a good plan and do many kids do it in the summer between 8th and 9th grade? Is this a virtual class? Thank you !

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:From what I remember you can't do it until the summer before 10th grade.

You can do it the summer before 9th.

[Anonymous]

I think it is relatively common to do it in *two* summers. You are allowed to take part A before 9th grade (my DC did it last summer) and you have to wait til the next summer for Part B.

It is feasible to take both in the same summer (after 9th), but kids often have other summer plans so it is cumbersome.

The version we took was entirely virtual. It only met something like 8 times across 3 or 4 weeks. The other days were 'asynchronous' (work on Canvas on your own time). They also offer in-person sections at some local HSs in the summer.

From my DC's experience, it was *very* easy in terms of grading but *a lot* of submissions. The teacher wanted all of the kids to do well (and hoping to give all As) but from DC told me, it sounded like the teacher spent a lot of time harping on students who weren't getting their submissions in, so I think that is the sticking point. If your kid can/will keep up on the asynchronous work, it's a convenient way to get the class out of the way.