HS health class over the summer

[Anonymous]

I wonder if summer classes will be no cost like last summer.

[Anonymous]

Health 1b won’t be available by the summer. Can only take 1a. I believe I read somewhere that there needs to be a 1 semester gap between 1a and 1b.

[Anonymous]

Some versions are honors and some are not. The honors version helps your gpa.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Health 1b won’t be available by the summer. Can only take 1a. I believe I read somewhere that there needs to be a 1 semester gap between 1a and 1b.

I wonder why that would be?

Also interested in having my kid take health over the summer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Health 1b won’t be available by the summer. Can only take 1a. I believe I read somewhere that there needs to be a 1 semester gap between 1a and 1b.

I wonder why that would be?

Also interested in having my kid take health over the summer.

Curriculum for 1b isn’t ready. Not sure why there needs to be a 1 semester gap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Health 1b won’t be available by the summer. Can only take 1a. I believe I read somewhere that there needs to be a 1 semester gap between 1a and 1b.

I wonder why that would be?

Also interested in having my kid take health over the summer.

I would understand if they just don't have the curriculum ready yet, seeing as it is shaping up into school year horribilis annus II. But a purposeful gap is even more stupid, because that means for any kid who takes the class in school, they have to figure out a way to fill in the 1/2 year. If the 2025 kids had notice, they could have done health/PE for each of the years but they did not and many kids scheduled 2 semesters of PE in 9th to get it out of the way. I think the State BOE should have given a couple more years to get this requirement implemented.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Health 1b won’t be available by the summer. Can only take 1a. I believe I read somewhere that there needs to be a 1 semester gap between 1a and 1b.

I wonder why that would be?

Also interested in having my kid take health over the summer.

I would understand if they just don't have the curriculum ready yet, seeing as it is shaping up into school year horribilis annus II. But a purposeful gap is even more stupid, because that means for any kid who takes the class in school, they have to figure out a way to fill in the 1/2 year. If the 2025 kids had notice, they could have done health/PE for each of the years but they did not and many kids scheduled 2 semesters of PE in 9th to get it out of the way. I think the State BOE should have given a couple more years to get this requirement implemented.

I completely agree with you. it screwed up my kid's 4 year plan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Health 1b won’t be available by the summer. Can only take 1a. I believe I read somewhere that there needs to be a 1 semester gap between 1a and 1b.

I wonder why that would be?

Also interested in having my kid take health over the summer.

I would understand if they just don't have the curriculum ready yet, seeing as it is shaping up into school year horribilis annus II. But a purposeful gap is even more stupid, because that means for any kid who takes the class in school, they have to figure out a way to fill in the 1/2 year. If the 2025 kids had notice, they could have done health/PE for each of the years but they did not and many kids scheduled 2 semesters of PE in 9th to get it out of the way. I think the State BOE should have given a couple more years to get this requirement implemented.

I completely agree with you. it screwed up my kid's 4 year plan.

My IB 9th grader has their last 2 years pretty much completely spoken for already, and very little room in her 10th grade schedule, either. She took a full year of PE this year thinking it was a requirement, and turned out to have wasted a semester in an already jam-packed schedule.

But I think doing A this summer and B the next will work OK, and still allow them to do CIT at camp both summers. Just frustrating not knowing, because signups for CIT programs is in January. Guess we’ll just stack either the front or the back half of the summer, and do health the other half. MCPS does say that for A/B courses, both halves will be taught in each summer school session, so fingers crossed health is the same.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Health 1b won’t be available by the summer. Can only take 1a. I believe I read somewhere that there needs to be a 1 semester gap between 1a and 1b.

I wonder why that would be?

Also interested in having my kid take health over the summer.

I would understand if they just don't have the curriculum ready yet, seeing as it is shaping up into school year horribilis annus II. But a purposeful gap is even more stupid, because that means for any kid who takes the class in school, they have to figure out a way to fill in the 1/2 year. If the 2025 kids had notice, they could have done health/PE for each of the years but they did not and many kids scheduled 2 semesters of PE in 9th to get it out of the way. I think the State BOE should have given a couple more years to get this requirement implemented.

I completely agree with you. it screwed up my kid's 4 year plan.

My IB 9th grader has their last 2 years pretty much completely spoken for already, and very little room in her 10th grade schedule, either. She took a full year of PE this year thinking it was a requirement, and turned out to have wasted a semester in an already jam-packed schedule.

But I think doing A this summer and B the next will work OK, and still allow them to do CIT at camp both summers. Just frustrating not knowing, because signups for CIT programs is in January. Guess we’ll just stack either the front or the back half of the summer, and do health the other half. MCPS does say that for A/B courses, both halves will be taught in each summer school session, so fingers crossed health is the same.

I feel for the packed schedule, but PE wasn't a waste. Kids still need 2 semesters of PE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Health 1b won’t be available by the summer. Can only take 1a. I believe I read somewhere that there needs to be a 1 semester gap between 1a and 1b.

I wonder why that would be?

Also interested in having my kid take health over the summer.

I would understand if they just don't have the curriculum ready yet, seeing as it is shaping up into school year horribilis annus II. But a purposeful gap is even more stupid, because that means for any kid who takes the class in school, they have to figure out a way to fill in the 1/2 year. If the 2025 kids had notice, they could have done health/PE for each of the years but they did not and many kids scheduled 2 semesters of PE in 9th to get it out of the way. I think the State BOE should have given a couple more years to get this requirement implemented.

I completely agree with you. it screwed up my kid's 4 year plan.

My IB 9th grader has their last 2 years pretty much completely spoken for already, and very little room in her 10th grade schedule, either. She took a full year of PE this year thinking it was a requirement, and turned out to have wasted a semester in an already jam-packed schedule.

But I think doing A this summer and B the next will work OK, and still allow them to do CIT at camp both summers. Just frustrating not knowing, because signups for CIT programs is in January. Guess we’ll just stack either the front or the back half of the summer, and do health the other half. MCPS does say that for A/B courses, both halves will be taught in each summer school session, so fingers crossed health is the same.

I feel for the packed schedule, but PE wasn't a waste. Kids still need 2 semesters of PE.

I thought they’d reduced it to 1, to offset the increased health requirement?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Health 1b won’t be available by the summer. Can only take 1a. I believe I read somewhere that there needs to be a 1 semester gap between 1a and 1b.

I wonder why that would be?

Also interested in having my kid take health over the summer.

Curriculum for 1b isn’t ready. Not sure why there needs to be a 1 semester gap.

There may need to be some sort of public review of the curriculum. I know any changes to the existing curriculum required a review and comment period.

[Anonymous]

I was just looking at old threads, and there were some references to online health classes in MCPS precovid.

[Anonymous]

Any updates? Are your kids not registering for Health next year, but hope to take it over the next two summers?

[Anonymous]

This shouldn't take effect for the 2025 class. Many kids already have their classes mapped out for the 4 years.

[Anonymous]

How can they require this class when the curriculum hasn't even been developed? There are seriously more important things to be focusing on.