Can a HS senior be part time at fcps?

[Anonymous]

DC has only two courses, English and Social Studies, to meet high school graduation requirements. Does FCPS allow enrolling as part time student in senior year to complete just two remaining required credit courses and get a HS diploma? DC is not interested in any of the other courses including the limited DE courses at their High School, and instead would like to take community college courses of their interest. Is this possible? Can they transfer to community college as full-time student and take remaining two high school credits there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC has only two courses, English and Social Studies, to meet high school graduation requirements. Does FCPS allow enrolling as part time student in senior year to complete just two remaining required credit courses and get a HS diploma? DC is not interested in any of the other courses including the limited DE courses at their High School, and instead would like to take community college courses of their interest. Is this possible? Can they transfer to community college as full-time student and take remaining two high school credits there?

Yes, we did this in 2021, but be aware your final transcript will not come from FCPS. You can pull your child out and homeschool them, you can request admission for those last two courses (and I say request because it’s not guaranteed that they will accept you based on space) and then take classes at NVCC.

Again, we did this in 2021, but your student will graduate from your homeschool program not FCPS. Our student did this and then went into college with 15 credits, but their final transcript is not from FCPS.

[Anonymous]

Contact the counselor at your school to see the minimum needed with the option of an early release schedule. They will want your kid to be full time but maybe you can work something out if the courses are not offered through FCPS to make up FT status. There is a form to get approval. https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/forms/is158.pdf

We ended up pulling my kid, similar to the PP, for a virtual school but did it before senior year to have more flexibility. It’s too late for you now to do this and still get a diploma issued through another school.

Just email the counselor and ask about community college transfer options.

[Anonymous]

You’d have to do homeschool and take the 2 classes you need at FCPS. Then you can do whatever you want at community college.

[Anonymous]

Why not do a GED option and start college a year early?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Contact the counselor at your school to see the minimum needed with the option of an early release schedule. They will want your kid to be full time but maybe you can work something out if the courses are not offered through FCPS to make up FT status. There is a form to get approval. https://www.fcps.edu/sites/default/files/media/forms/is158.pdf

We ended up pulling my kid, similar to the PP, for a virtual school but did it before senior year to have more flexibility. It’s too late for you now to do this and still get a diploma issued through another school.

Just email the counselor and ask about community college transfer options.

Can you elaborate on this transfer option. If there is a community college course that student is interested in taking, after all justifications and approval from HS counselor, the course credit can be transferred back onto the HS transcript? What kind of CC courses qualify for this type of transfer?

[Anonymous]

Talk to the counselor. This sometimes happens. There are always options, especially if your kid has transportation. If they don't have a class, they can't be on campus during non-class time.

[Anonymous]

This is called: Concurrent Enrollment - https://www.fcps.edu/academics/academic-and-career-plans/concurrent-enrollment

the Guidance Counselor can do this. And it's not limited to Community College it's any College.

[Anonymous]

There is a form you can submit to request a waiver of full-time status. My student is doing this next year (she is taking 5 classes at her high school and two elsewhere). The counselor says he has students who just come in for 1 or 2 classes. The kids still get their regular diplomas.

Your counselor will have this form.

[Anonymous]

Haha all these complicated ways

Here’s what you do

Request late arrival (miss 1st block), request early dismissal (leave before last block

Enroll for govt and English

Have counselor schedule put enrollment on just odd days

Just have your kid skip blue days to go to nova for class (call in every other day so it’s excused)

Literally what will happen, your kid will miss every other day and be present every other day so it’s not like it’ll be an attendance issue

Don’t make it hard just abuse the system like everyone else does. The difference your actually abusing the system for a good reason unlike others who are just like my kid no want go school

That’s cool to those gonna say I’m full of it but I taught at a high performing high school for a decade and a half where this kind of thing happened (and not just to go to nova)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There is a form you can submit to request a waiver of full-time status. My student is doing this next year (she is taking 5 classes at her high school and two elsewhere). The counselor says he has students who just come in for 1 or 2 classes. The kids still get their regular diplomas.

Your counselor will have this form.

This is probably better than my just abuse the system but yea pretty much you don’t have to “home school” to make it happen

[Anonymous]

You can, but there might be an issue if he turns 18 before June and they end up repaling Obama care with your health care plan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You can, but there might be an issue if he turns 18 before June and they end up repaling Obama care with your health care plan.

Not OP but my kid is looking into a gap year and I just checked into my private insurance. He can be fully covered until he’s 26. This isn’t an issue right now or in the immediate future.