MCPS summer school question -- Foundations of Technology, Health classes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can you take them as arising 9thgrader?

Who is eligible to take the online health and technology courses?
Students are eligible to take Comprehensive Health Education after completing Grade 9. Students currently in Grade 9 are eligible to register for the summer course when registration opens for summer courses.

Students are eligible to take Foundations of Technology after completing Grade 8. Students currently in Grade 8 are eligible to register for the summer course when registration opens for summer courses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also,,honors health is not offered over the summer if it matters.

Wrong, my DC took Honors health (with bump in GPA) over the summer at B-CC

Was that in-person the whole time? At least as per the current website, the e-learning version is only regular health and not honors.

[Anonymous]

A fair warning, it is a lot of work for Health. If your child wants to finish up the class without any problems, he or she should expect to work up to 4-5 hours each day for 2 weeks, even on the weekends. Also, they go over the basics and really rush it through.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also,,honors health is not offered over the summer if it matters.

Wrong, my DC took Honors health (with bump in GPA) over the summer at B-CC

Was that in-person the whole time? At least as per the current website, the e-learning version is only regular health and not honors.

In-person over the summer for honors health

[Anonymous]

3 weeks

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also,,honors health is not offered over the summer if it matters.

Wrong, my DC took Honors health (with bump in GPA) over the summer at B-CC

Was that in-person the whole time? At least as per the current website, the e-learning version is only regular health and not honors.

In-person over the summer for honors health

According to the website there are no classes at BCC Thu s summer and no honors health insurance s offered...unless BCC has a special program just for their students.

[Anonymous]

On just looked..and BCC does! You register through the school not mcps...I wonder why that is. Anyways it looks like they do accept outside students too. It says it fills very quickly so I would contact them if interested. I wonder what other schools!s do this?

[Anonymous]

Churchill does as well. Wooton offers regular health but only for Wooton students..

[Anonymous]

Bump. Parent considering summer online and/or in-person classes for the summer for a rising sophomore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have any experience with the summer school offerings for Foundations in Technology and Health? Is the online class/three face-to-face meetings adequate for something like Foundations in Technology (I don't know much about what that class does)? Is there any disadvantage to not taking these classes in person during the school year? Does a kid have to be super independently motivated to do an online summer school?

Thanks in advance for any anecdotes/advice.

The online registration system is almost laughably over-complicated involving multiple steps.

If you are going to sign up, be sure to start the process THE DAY registration opens. Classes fill up rocket fast.

I second both these points. You won't believe how unnecessarily complicated the registration process is. And be ready to go AS SOON AS the registration site opens. I didn't believe it when someone told me this and was shut out when I tried registering the next day.

[Anonymous]

My DS did the online health class last summer as a rising 10th grader. It was nice that he was able to get it out of the way and open up his schedule to other electives this year. However, I agree with all the above posters who said the class is a lot of work. It was actually a lot of ridiculous busy work and put together really horribly. If your kid is good at checking off boxes, getting things done as efficiently as possible, and staying on top of assignments, it isn't too bad but I would not recommend the class for a perfectionist who is easily frustrated by illogical grading and horribly written content and tests.

[Anonymous]

My current 9th grader wants to take health this summer. Does anyone know when the registration opens up?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My current 9th grader wants to take health this summer. Does anyone know when the registration opens up?

March 17

http://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/onlinelearning/registration/

[Anonymous]

On the tech course, my daughter signed up for AP computer science... registration system says it fulfills the TE credit. What she really wants is computer programming, not foundations of technology. We figure this is at least closer to programming (?)

[Anonymous]

I'm confused by the comment that Foundations of Tech is only one semester-- they're required to have a full 1 credit to graduate... So they would have to take both semester-long courses in the summer, online?