Online summer school health - how much work are the synchronous zooms?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If your kid is in an online mcps summer class this summer, how much work has it been?

Health A was a fair amount of busy work but not hard. Maybe an hour or two a day, no homework/assignments on the weekends though. Passed with a 99.

Health B has been a nightmare, but it is because DS drew a really terrible teacher. My kid and his friend who is in the same class had Bs after the first week. Kids in the class complained about the grading, and the teacher told the class that meeting the rubric for the assignment would only earn a B or a C. When asked how to earn an A, the teacher said, "I don't know, work harder." The synchronous classes are an hour and 15 minutes. She teaches for about 30-40 minutes, and then makes everyone sit there in silence for the remainder of the time. If you leave early, you are marked absent.

This week, she hasn't been able to teach the synchronous classes on Mon & Wed and her class was combined with another teacher's class. My kid's normal teacher had sent an email that the final is timed -- 45 minutes, if you go one second over, you fail. The kids asked the other teacher about the timer, and she said "No, the final isn't timed, take your time and do your best. I'll check with the other teacher though." Few minutes later she says, "I got a note back and yes if you are in Ms. X's class, your final is timed. My class, not timed."

This teacher sounds like they have some serious ssues. I would check with administration because if the final is timed, it's timed for all MCPS students. That's not something a teacher can decide unilaterally.

[Anonymous]

It's very teacher-dependent. When my kid took Health A online over the summer, his class was really tough and the teacher made it hard to get an A. His friends who got assigned to 2 different teachers had an easy time. Lots of easy busywork, but easy grading.

My kid chose to do Health B online during the fall semester in 10th grade (2 years ago) and found it much more chill with only one class meeting a week for 6 or 7 weeks.

We're going to have our younger kid (rising 9th grader) take both Health A and B online during the fall of his 10th grade year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's very teacher-dependent. When my kid took Health A online over the summer, his class was really tough and the teacher made it hard to get an A. His friends who got assigned to 2 different teachers had an easy time. Lots of easy busywork, but easy grading.

My kid chose to do Health B online during the fall semester in 10th grade (2 years ago) and found it much more chill with only one class meeting a week for 6 or 7 weeks.

We're going to have our younger kid (rising 9th grader) take both Health A and B online during the fall of his 10th grade year.

Both at same time?

[Anonymous]

Maryland needs to get rid of Health B
. What a waste of time.

[Anonymous]

My child also took Health A this summer and agree with posters who said a lot of busy work but not hard. There was a final exam, no papers.

[Anonymous]

Is there a simple place to see what meets the requirements? If you take via MCC online, does one class meet the requirement of A & B, or are they two semesters of classes too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is there a simple place to see what meets the requirements? If you take via MCC online, does one class meet the requirement of A & B, or are they two semesters of classes too.

When you find "simple" in mcps, let everyone know where they should look for that