Can you explain sequential electives requirement

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Anonymous wrote:It is an FCPS requirement for HS. How do you satisfy it? For example, would AP Macro/Micro satisfy it? If not, can you give an example that would?

HS counselor here

The easy tell if courses are sequential is that on the course selection sheet they’ll be under the same header. So all marketing classes are sequential within that course group. The IT classes are all sequential within their group. They just don’t cross over and become sequential with each other. Also, you can tell if something is sequential, obviously, if it has a number attached. Photography 1 and Photography 2, etc...

Another way to meet the requirement is to do 2 years of a subject beyond the advanced diploma requirement. So you need 4 years a math to get the advanced diploma. If you do 2 added math electives so like a 4 + 2 you meet the requirement. For example: Algebra 1 (8th) Geometry (9th), Algebra 2 (10th), Precalculus (11th), And the 2 “extra” they take technically as electives: AP Calculus BC (12th) and AP Stats (12th). Same for other subjects like science: Bio (9th), Chem (10th), Physicy and AP Chem (11th). Now you met your 4. Then then 2 “extra” they take technically as electives: AP Physics and AP Environmental Science (12th)

A student can also do it with language so like a 3 + 2: They take French 1, 2, 3 in grades 8, 9, and 10. Then Level 4 in 11th and level 5 or AP in 12th. Levels 4 and 5 are sequential because they are electives that go beyond what is needed for the language requirement for the advanced diploma.

Hope this helps someone.

What about 4 years of orchestra in high school? Would that count as sequential electives?

I'm not the person you're asking but wouldn't this fall under the person's explanation of "under the same header." Various orchestra is all ubder fine arts music at our HS so I would assume if you took 2 different types of orchestra it would count but I don't know for sure.

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So trying to figure this out with my kid. Would sequencing in choir count? What if it doesn’t specify choir 1 and 2? How does a kid fulfill this if they take a language and music all 4 years?

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Anonymous wrote:So trying to figure this out with my kid. Would sequencing in choir count? What if it doesn’t specify choir 1 and 2? How does a kid fulfill this if they take a language and music all 4 years?

it's not the same chorus all 4 years, right?? so that works. it doesn't have to say 1 and 2.

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Updated to say my kid moved up from one group in orchestra to the next so that counts as sequential.

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Anonymous wrote:So trying to figure this out with my kid. Would sequencing in choir count? What if it doesn’t specify choir 1 and 2? How does a kid fulfill this if they take a language and music all 4 years?

it's not the same chorus all 4 years, right?? so that works. it doesn't have to say 1 and 2.

No not same.

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Anonymous wrote:So trying to figure this out with my kid. Would sequencing in choir count? What if it doesn’t specify choir 1 and 2? How does a kid fulfill this if they take a language and music all 4 years?

it's not the same chorus all 4 years, right?? so that works. it doesn't have to say 1 and 2.

Some kids stay in same choir/band or don’t do all 4 years.

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How do band and choir play into this?

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Anonymous wrote:How do band and choir play into this?

You can stay in the same orchestra and it still counts as sequenctial. The thinking is that you grew in your skills. Maybe you were 8th chair and then 5th and then 2nd so you played the harder parts and grew your skills

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Leadership 1 and 2

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Anonymous wrote:Do languages count for this?

Yes if you take lang beyond required courses to graduate. So you can count them but you can't double count them.

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Anonymous wrote:So trying to figure this out with my kid. Would sequencing in choir count? What if it doesn’t specify choir 1 and 2? How does a kid fulfill this if they take a language and music all 4 years?

You need to ask your kid's school. I was told that certain electives taken again could count as sequential even if not marked 1 and 2 if designated by the school.

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Anonymous wrote:One PP says language counts. Another says it doesn’t. I don’t see why it wouldn’t count, if you’re taking multiple years beyond what you need to.

It does count if it's taken beyond what's required. You can't double count it though. But you should check with your kid's school instead of DCUM.

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Do we have to take the wise exam? We took self directed but now there’s a wise exam?

What’s a cte credential exam? Did my kid do that?

My counselor said no but the transcript says yes but

As always I remain ever vigilantly here for epf graduation requirement explanations for you all

Folks the counselors rarely fully grasp it trust me half the time they were asking me the former epf teacher the other half the counselors were pretending to have a clue

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Anonymous wrote:Do languages count for this?

Yes if you take lang beyond required courses to graduate. So you can count them but you can't double count them.

You can also get the Standard Diploma, which works just as well as the Advanced. Since there are no language requirements for Standard then you can count 1 and 2.

The exception to this, I believe, is if your kid is at TJ. I don't think they let kids get a standard there.