TJ "9th Period"
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Anonymous
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Can someone please explain the 8th course that is allowed to be taken online full year at TJ, so called "9th period"?
Can my student take a foreign language(level 3), or Health&PE 10 or Chemistry 1 as the 8th course online at TJ during their sophomore year? Thanks! |
Anonymous
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I do not know the answer re: chem or language but jeez you are going to run your poor kid into the ground if you are having them squeeze in academic classes to 9th period.
- TJ parent |
Anonymous
OP here, I can't comment on other people's children, because I don't have enough information about them. My child is trying to squeeze AP physics C into scheduling alongside AP cal BC next year. Elective slots will be used for world language/ HPE/ music program, etc, which is why 9th period comes into thoughts. 8th period are for activities and academic catching up, right? Some students DO enjoy STEM subjects. Mine is taking double math this year and easily getting As on both subjects (A+ if those were actually given). However, an extra humanity class would be out of the question. My kid knows their strength and weakness. |
Anonymous
Earlier PP. My kid’s experience too did this similar line up (in 11th though) and just took HPE in the summer before 10th. Yes I do think it is possible as a 9th period though. |
Anonymous
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We went through this two years ago. The short answer is no. The long answer is that you can only take elective courses as an additional class during the year. You can take something like AP Psych as an extra course, but not chem (which has its own TJ Chem course code I think anyway). You can take HPE 10 in the summer, which many students do. TJ Chem in the summer is a beast, but doable. I believe you can also take a language over the summer.
https://tjhsst.fcps.edu/tjhsst-online-course-policy |
Anonymous
Looks like AP physics can only happen junior year then. There is not much a student can do if they want to stay in the music program for 4 years, in terms of elective slots. Thank you for your reply! |
Anonymous
Band kids all do a summer class each year to free up space. Beyond that you COULD use the “one year off” of curricular band option if your kid mainly wants to be able to keep marching and take a year off of band as a class. That!/ about it though re: elective flexibilities for a music kid. |
Anonymous
Marching band kids, at the least, can take one year off from curricular band class in order to fit in an extra elective, as long as they're still doing marching band. My understanding is that many kids also take world history 1 as an online summer class to take care of the fourth history credit they need. |
Anonymous
| This was addressed at virtual Curriculum Night last week, at least as far as PE. |
Anonymous
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Any kid successfully registered a non-core course as 9th period online course here?
My kid's counselor simply said no. This is against what I heard during virtual curriculum night. Do not know how to beg the counselor to allow this. |
Anonymous
Yes, AP macro/micro. What course is your student interested in? |
Anonymous
Thanks for sharing. Yes, I heard others take AP macro/micro/Psycho as 9th period. My kid is planning to take AP CS. I suppose this is not a core course? |
Anonymous
TJ AP CS+ course covers data structures and is significantly more rigorous than the FCPS online AP CS, which is substandard even to base school AP CS. Hence, the online version will not be allowed on a TJ transcript. To maintain TJ’s academic standards, students cannot opt for an easier version of an AP course while their peers invest considerably more effort to complete the course at TJ to show it on TJ transcript. |
Anonymous
Thanks for the clarification. This makes sense. Then my kid needs to skip music which he is reluctant to do. |
Anonymous
| OP why are you still trying to do this as 9th period? Just have your kid do the summer class. |