FCPS Online Summer School - Really 6-7 Hours a Day?

[Anonymous]

My DC is taking physics summer school online through FCPS. Is it really true that he will have 6-7 hours of asynchronous work a day? That is what the website says. Oy.

[Anonymous]

How many weeks long?

[Anonymous]

Yes, People constantly ask this about summer classes. It’s 6-7 hours a day. It’s an entire year in like 6 weeks. It has to be that long.

[Anonymous]

and you better make sure the student is self-motivated and has a great internet connection

[Anonymous]

Yes. Summer school is intensive. It is not light work, people say this every single year. You need a very dedicated and motivated student with good time management to do well in a summer course.

[Anonymous]

Hope your kid enjoys learning from videos. Mine could not do it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Summer school is intensive. It is not light work, people say this every single year. You need a very dedicated and motivated student with good time management to do well in a summer course.

This. These classes are not the same as credit recovery or ESY. Please don't sign your child up for Geometry, Spanish 3, or Physics in the summer unless they're a stellar student with excellent executive functioning skills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, People constantly ask this about summer classes. It’s 6-7 hours a day. It’s an entire year in like 6 weeks. It has to be that long.

It's not even 6 weeks this year, it's more like 4 weeks, June 23 - July 25.

[Anonymous]

This surprises me because I have heard other FCPS parents talk about some of the summer classes not being bad (exception is Geometry). I think we will give it a try for the first week - you can drop without grade penalty the first 7 days.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't think Physics is a great course to take over the summer. It's pretty intense and cramming a whole school year into 4-5 weeks seems pretty challenging.

DD just finished a normal full year of Physics and it's a lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, People constantly ask this about summer classes. It’s 6-7 hours a day. It’s an entire year in like 6 weeks. It has to be that long.

It's not even 6 weeks this year, it's more like 4 weeks, June 23 - July 25.

If you multiply 6.5 times the number of classes, it gets you back to the hours they normally would have had in school. But that’s still a lot.

[Anonymous]

Omg summer school is 6-7 weeks but more like 4-5 weeks. Like what is it about logic that people don’t get. Will the yearlong course my kid takes in a month instead of nine months be harder. Will they need to do a lot of work. What about their grade will they be able to retake everything. Yes yes no

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Omg summer school is 6-7 weeks but more like 4-5 weeks. Like what is it about logic that people don’t get. Will the yearlong course my kid takes in a month instead of nine months be harder. Will they need to do a lot of work. What about their grade will they be able to retake everything. Yes yes no

no retakes in summer school online.

midterms and finals are all in person.

your kid misses 2 days: they are withdrawn from the course.

you have exactly about 2 days to decide to withdraw with no fee penalty.

after 3rd day, no refunds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Omg summer school is 6-7 weeks but more like 4-5 weeks. Like what is it about logic that people don’t get. Will the yearlong course my kid takes in a month instead of nine months be harder. Will they need to do a lot of work. What about their grade will they be able to retake everything. Yes yes no

no retakes in summer school online.

midterms and finals are all in person.

your kid misses 2 days: they are withdrawn from the course.

you have exactly about 2 days to decide to withdraw with no fee penalty.

after 3rd day, no refunds.

Thanks for updating that it’s still like it was in 2005. That’s how it should be forever. Fully support on my end

[Anonymous]

Assume these posts for everything except PE/Health, which have been told is straight-forward easy. Not sure if midterm or final and thought just show up 1 hour on Zoom and do 1 hour Fitbit exercise and that’s it. The can’t miss more than 2 days the same though.