Summer personal finance 2023

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Anonymous wrote:This course(if taken online) will also count towards the now required virtual course needed to get diploma.

It’s always been required. But it’s been a soft requirements.

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Just signed up my DC for this. Hoping it's relatively fast and smooth. DC has done other electives the past two summers (PE).

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Anonymous wrote:Just signed up my DC for this. Hoping it's relatively fast and smooth. DC has done other electives the past two summers (PE).

How do you sign up for this? Is it too late? Is it asynchronous?

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Middle schooler here. What is this?!

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If you know you will be away can you get ahead? Front load or does it dole out assignments week by week so there is no way to do that?

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Anonymous wrote:If you know you will be away can you get ahead? Front load or does it dole out assignments week by week so there is no way to do that?

It is entirely self paced.

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Anonymous wrote:Middle schooler here. What is this?!

HS course required for graduation.

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Anonymous wrote:Just signed up my DC for this. Hoping it's relatively fast and smooth. DC has done other electives the past two summers (PE).

How do you sign up for this? Is it too late? Is it asynchronous?

https://www.fcps.edu/academics/summer-learning/self-directed-economics-and-personal-finance

Self-paced and online.

[Anonymous]

Just FYI- there is also an online version of this course that is teacher directed and requires students to work 6 hours per day for 4 weeks.

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Anonymous wrote:Just FYI- there is also an online version of this course that is teacher directed and requires students to work 6 hours per day for 4 weeks.

How do we avoid that one. We don't want that one.

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Anonymous wrote:Just FYI- there is also an online version of this course that is teacher directed and requires students to work 6 hours per day for 4 weeks.

How do we avoid that one. We don't want that one.

You don’t choose the teacher led online class. It’s that simple. You choose the self directed online course. Also when you get to HS level courses, especially after 9 th grade, your kid/ you is on their own. No one is going to take them by the hand and tell them what to take and how to register. One mascot time class period will be dedicated to course selection where a student can ask the teacher in charge. Your student will also meet once with their counselor to go over their course selection. This is it Unless your child specifically asks to meet more with the counselor and has specific questions to ask( advised your kid to advocate and ask the school questions- it’s great practice for college). If parents are not trusting their kids to pick courses after 9th grade, parents will also need to reach out to the guidance counselor. No one will tell you how to register for a summer class unless you ask or you investigate on your own. Google: FCPS summer 2023 catalog. Select your HS ets. Or reach out to counselor. Rising 9 th grade students and parents should attend the HS curriculum night for rising 9th. Google: your HS 2023 course catalog, Google : FCPS graduation requirements . This is the best way to start to familiarize yourself with what is required/ offered for HS

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Anonymous wrote:It’s P/F so you only need to out in a minimum of effort. Once my kid had earned enough points to pass, she didn’t worry about spending too much time reading or doing retakes on any modules (I think you get 3 attempts on each) and still ends up with a pretty good grade. She took the session that overlapped school since she took another course that summer; the self pacing made it easy to schedule around other assignments.

It is NO LONGER like this. “Grading for this course is pass/fail. Students must have an overall average of 64% or higher on the 140 Exit Tickets, 14 Module Tests, and Final exam to pass to the course. ALL 140 Exit Tickets, 14 Module Tests, and Final exam are mandatory regardless of reaching the minimum number of points prior to completing all the required assignments”. The way it is set up now you must take each exit ticket to proceed to the next followed by tests for each section. I also believe the start date is “ most likely” June 25 end date is July 29th. Last year summer dates were June 27-July 29

I have one kid who took it with the old curriculum and one with the new. It is definitely more work with the new curriculum, but still not a ton of work. The 3 retakes makes it pretty easy because all true/false questions that are wrong, are easily fixed to the right answer on the second retake. I have pretty self motivated kids and both finished well in advance of the final date of the class. The one that took it last summer finished about 3.5 weeks ahead of time. I think it started in April - or at least a month+ before school got out.

NP. So all 140 exit tickets are P/F and they get 3 attempts? That doesn’t sound too terrible. It looks like they aren’t allowed to start before June 5th this year.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s P/F so you only need to out in a minimum of effort. Once my kid had earned enough points to pass, she didn’t worry about spending too much time reading or doing retakes on any modules (I think you get 3 attempts on each) and still ends up with a pretty good grade. She took the session that overlapped school since she took another course that summer; the self pacing made it easy to schedule around other assignments.

It is NO LONGER like this. “Grading for this course is pass/fail. Students must have an overall average of 64% or higher on the 140 Exit Tickets, 14 Module Tests, and Final exam to pass to the course. ALL 140 Exit Tickets, 14 Module Tests, and Final exam are mandatory regardless of reaching the minimum number of points prior to completing all the required assignments”. The way it is set up now you must take each exit ticket to proceed to the next followed by tests for each section. I also believe the start date is “ most likely” June 25 end date is July 29th. Last year summer dates were June 27-July 29

I have one kid who took it with the old curriculum and one with the new. It is definitely more work with the new curriculum, but still not a ton of work. The 3 retakes makes it pretty easy because all true/false questions that are wrong, are easily fixed to the right answer on the second retake. I have pretty self motivated kids and both finished well in advance of the final date of the class. The one that took it last summer finished about 3.5 weeks ahead of time. I think it started in April - or at least a month+ before school got out.

NP. So all 140 exit tickets are P/F and they get 3 attempts? That doesn’t sound too terrible. It looks like they aren’t allowed to start before June 5th this year.

What? No, the exit tickets aren’t p/f. I said all t/f questions that show as wrong on the first of three tries, are easily fixed. Not all questions are t/f, however.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s P/F so you only need to out in a minimum of effort. Once my kid had earned enough points to pass, she didn’t worry about spending too much time reading or doing retakes on any modules (I think you get 3 attempts on each) and still ends up with a pretty good grade. She took the session that overlapped school since she took another course that summer; the self pacing made it easy to schedule around other assignments.

It is NO LONGER like this. “Grading for this course is pass/fail. Students must have an overall average of 64% or higher on the 140 Exit Tickets, 14 Module Tests, and Final exam to pass to the course. ALL 140 Exit Tickets, 14 Module Tests, and Final exam are mandatory regardless of reaching the minimum number of points prior to completing all the required assignments”. The way it is set up now you must take each exit ticket to proceed to the next followed by tests for each section. I also believe the start date is “ most likely” June 25 end date is July 29th. Last year summer dates were June 27-July 29

I have one kid who took it with the old curriculum and one with the new. It is definitely more work with the new curriculum, but still not a ton of work. The 3 retakes makes it pretty easy because all true/false questions that are wrong, are easily fixed to the right answer on the second retake. I have pretty self motivated kids and both finished well in advance of the final date of the class. The one that took it last summer finished about 3.5 weeks ahead of time. I think it started in April - or at least a month+ before school got out.

NP. So all 140 exit tickets are P/F and they get 3 attempts? That doesn’t sound too terrible. It looks like they aren’t allowed to start before June 5th this year.

What? No, the exit tickets aren’t p/f. I said all t/f questions that show as wrong on the first of three tries, are easily fixed. Not all questions are t/f, however.

That was a typo on my part. I meant to type T/F. Thanks for clarifying.

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Can this be taken in the spring, during the school year?