Summer School Health Class is awful

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:High school Health class has been a joke since I took it 30+ years ago. At least we got an optional first aid and CPR certification out of the deal. Otherwise, it was completely useless.

I would bet 95% of the parents in this board would be happier if they included a section on CPR and First Aid and removed some of the nonsense.

CPR should be a requirement for a health class.

100% agree

[Anonymous]

Actually I think it is required that cpr and using an aed be taught in high school. I wonder why that isnt happening.

[Anonymous]

^^
this is a Maryland law.

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It’s actually a 5 minute run down for CPR and hours on genital warts and doing power point slides on the different warts for each STD.

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My teens both took it in the first session. It was a ton of busy work, but it’s done and saved an important spot on their schedules for the school year.

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I look summer health in a different state back in the late 80s. Most of our time was spent watching afterschool specials. Good times.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My teens both took it in the first session. It was a ton of busy work, but it’s done and saved an important spot on their schedules for the school year.

So I’m wondering about this.

What class does your kid plan to take instead of Health.

My kid has a pretty challenging schedule. Maybe doing Health during the idea is a good idea as a bit of a ‘break’? Especially now that it’s a year long course.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree it’s a ridiculous amount of busy work but how do you all know how they’re teaching and what quiz questions were asked? My DS was in his room with headphones on for the entire class. Do HS parents really hover that much?

+1 I have no clue when DD had tests. DD got an A. Yes, there was a lot of work. My older DC also took health in the summer and didn't have as much work. They must've added additional material, especially given that now health is a full one credit rather than half when my older DC took it.

But this was only the 1/2 credit course. Health B isn’t offered yet.

Yes, understood, my point was that they may have changed the curriculum to account for Health B.


And ITA with a PP about requiring CPR, but to do that, it would have to be in person.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s much better to take it in person. The in person teachers typically assign work that is completed in class.

It is an absolute waste of a credit that could be used on a fun elective or AP classes need to take. That’s why everyone takes it in the summer. They don’t learn anything.

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This class has been well-known to be a joke for years in most school districts. The kids don't take it seriously and it has to be filled with busywork to make them not completely blow it off. The same thing would sometimes happen with the technology credit, with kids signing up for classes on how to use Word and Internet Explorer and spending the whole time surfing the internet. It's inevitable with curriculum requirements that don't build on anything else and aren't important on the transcript except to not blow them. I blame the state for not allowing the same topics to somehow be covered organically in other classes to meet the requirement.

The only thing I remember from my MCPS health class 20 years ago was an incredibly gross video where they had someone sticking their hand in a big bucket of phlegm collected from what a smoker had coughed up. Which was actually a remarkably effective deterrent for me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:High school Health class has been a joke since I took it 30+ years ago. At least we got an optional first aid and CPR certification out of the deal. Otherwise, it was completely useless.

I would bet 95% of the parents in this board would be happier if they included a section on CPR and First Aid and removed some of the nonsense.

CPR should be a requirement for a health class.

They briefly went over CPR in the online course

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My teens both took it in the first session. It was a ton of busy work, but it’s done and saved an important spot on their schedules for the school year.

So I’m wondering about this.

What class does your kid plan to take instead of Health.

My kid has a pretty challenging schedule. Maybe doing Health during the idea is a good idea as a bit of a ‘break’? Especially now that it’s a year long course.

My kid added AP Physics. I warned him about the more challenging schedule but he was gung-ho.

[Anonymous]

Health online is completely non-analytical but regurgitation heavy. I did one of my kid's assignments for them to save time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Health class was always a joke

This. Ours was taught by coaches who were forced to “teach” a class, so picked the easiest one. They showed us as teenagers a cartoon called Captain Condom, where a superhero would fly over teenaged couples making out on park benches and rain condoms down on their heads like manna from heaven.

Profoundly stupid and a total waste of time.

[Anonymous]

My kid took health during the previous academic year @ PHS and just loved it. An amazing teacher taught the course and there were many a-ha moments for him. I have actually seen a shift in him regarding his health and responsible behavior because the teacher was so amazing and did not dumb down Health.