10th Grade PE - Summer School

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Anonymous wrote:I am not sure how many times you can miss but I had received this back about the course. But I do know it is very important to be at all the Drivers Ed classes as that is non-negotiable as you have to have so many classroom hours as that is regulated by the state.




The daily virtual 1-hour meetings are held between 8 am and 2 pm, but the times won’t be assigned until after June 10 (close of registration). On June 17, the teachers will email students and parents with details on how to start the course, including the assigned time for the daily meetings.

The approximate 5-6 hours of daily asynchronous activities includes

· 60 minutes of physical exercise (documented using a device capable of tracking their heart rate that they have access to or a downloadable, free app for their smartphone),

· a reflection and analysis of their physical exercise, and

· daily assignments/assessments (topics ranging from fitness, CPR(HPE9), driver education (HPE10), human growth and development (FLE)) aligned with the Virginia Standards of Learning for Health and Physical Education.

Students must have access to a computer (not tablet or smartphone) for multiple hours each weekday to complete the required assignments and are encouraged to use their FCPS issued laptops. If the student is a rising 9th grader, they can contact the high school they will be attending in the fall.

For HPE 10, the driver education curriculum will be taught by your child’s teacher and will cover all the requirements as outlined in the Standards of Learning. You and your child will be required to attend a 90 minute synchronous session (will need to have cameras on), time and date TBD, to satisfy the Partners for Safe Teen Driving requirement for obtaining the DEC-8 pink card (needed before your child can take behind the wheel driving instruction.)

This sounds miserable. Give up a whole summer so they can have an elective? Weird.

It’s not the whole summer. It is 4 weeks. And for some, it’s worth it to be able to access relevant classes and meaningful experiences during the regular school year.

And I'm pretty sure is pass/fail during the summer so it's part of the MO for students and parents who are looking to maximize GPA and AP offerings.

It is not Pass/Fail unless you elect that.

Is it better to take it Pass/Fail?

It's a pretty easy A if your kid does the workouts and attends the class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My DD did 9th and 10th grade PE over the summer and was able to connect while on vacation. It was not time-consuming at all.

I don't get the concerns here. I attended high school in Illinois and PE was mandatory all four years of high school. It was my favorite class. And I was studious - 11th out of a class of 750. I did enroll in the competitive PE because I was a D1 scholarship athlete and actually appreciated the challenge of playing sports to which I was marginally proficient. Good for ego deflation and appreciating the skills of others. My senior year I enrolled in the PE class which promised always to go outdoors, no matter the weather. Not sure any school would do this today in a litigation happy environment. Playing street hockey in a blizzard in the parking lot may sound extreme, but it was incredibly fun, and had none of the pressure I felt in being a state champion in my sport, which, for a poor person like me, was satisfying but grinding. The school had PE offerings for those who merely wanted exercise or outdoor adventure experiences (there was a rock climbing class). Even if kids don't feel athletic, they benefit from PE. At my alumni gatherings, even the non-athletic types look fondly on PE. As an aside, it was also a great place for the school's best athletes to lead in a campaign against bullying. The school knew its stuff in that regard. A big component of my grade was sportsmanship and treating everyone well.

[Anonymous]

We was told last summer you could miss 2 days but the minute you was late on another day after that you would be withdrawn. My student would log on last year even when sick (Covid) and just listen - just to be counted as present.

[Anonymous]

FCPS PE 10 has Drivers Ed - includes the virtual Parent/Teen Course and 30 hours of Classroom - $375 - Student will need to pick up pink slip after school starts in order to do behind the wheel later - which is a different fee and you can pick what company that works for you.

Virtual VA PE 10 - Does NOT include Drivers Ed - $375
So you will need to PAY additionally for the 30 hours of Classroom and for the Parent/Teen Course as you cannot do the class at the school unless you are taking the in person PE 10 course that school year.
Drivers ED through VADETS is $119

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS PE 10 has Drivers Ed - includes the virtual Parent/Teen Course and 30 hours of Classroom - $375 - Student will need to pick up pink slip after school starts in order to do behind the wheel later - which is a different fee and you can pick what company that works for you.

Virtual VA PE 10 - Does NOT include Drivers Ed - $375
So you will need to PAY additionally for the 30 hours of Classroom and for the Parent/Teen Course as you cannot do the class at the school unless you are taking the in person PE 10 course that school year.
Drivers ED through VADETS is $119

This is not correct. You can absolutely attend the parent/teen course through FCPS.

[Anonymous]

This sounds awful. 5-6 hours of virtual PE for a month? I hope private schools don't do this.

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Anonymous wrote:This sounds awful. 5-6 hours of virtual PE for a month? I hope private schools don't do this.

In practice it is nowhere near this many hours per day. It was an hour or less of class. Less than an hour of HW. And then physical activity, which DC would do anyway b/c she's an athlete.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My DD did 9th and 10th grade PE over the summer and was able to connect while on vacation. It was not time-consuming at all.

I don't get the concerns here. I attended high school in Illinois and PE was mandatory all four years of high school. It was my favorite class. And I was studious - 11th out of a class of 750. I did enroll in the competitive PE because I was a D1 scholarship athlete and actually appreciated the challenge of playing sports to which I was marginally proficient. Good for ego deflation and appreciating the skills of others. My senior year I enrolled in the PE class which promised always to go outdoors, no matter the weather. Not sure any school would do this today in a litigation happy environment. Playing street hockey in a blizzard in the parking lot may sound extreme, but it was incredibly fun, and had none of the pressure I felt in being a state champion in my sport, which, for a poor person like me, was satisfying but grinding. The school had PE offerings for those who merely wanted exercise or outdoor adventure experiences (there was a rock climbing class). Even if kids don't feel athletic, they benefit from PE. At my alumni gatherings, even the non-athletic types look fondly on PE. As an aside, it was also a great place for the school's best athletes to lead in a campaign against bullying. The school knew its stuff in that regard. A big component of my grade was sportsmanship and treating everyone well.

No one is anti PE, there just isn’t room for everything in the schedule. My kid wants band, and computer science, and Latin. There’s no room.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not sure how many times you can miss but I had received this back about the course. But I do know it is very important to be at all the Drivers Ed classes as that is non-negotiable as you have to have so many classroom hours as that is regulated by the state.




The daily virtual 1-hour meetings are held between 8 am and 2 pm, but the times won’t be assigned until after June 10 (close of registration). On June 17, the teachers will email students and parents with details on how to start the course, including the assigned time for the daily meetings.

The approximate 5-6 hours of daily asynchronous activities includes

· 60 minutes of physical exercise (documented using a device capable of tracking their heart rate that they have access to or a downloadable, free app for their smartphone),

· a reflection and analysis of their physical exercise, and

· daily assignments/assessments (topics ranging from fitness, CPR(HPE9), driver education (HPE10), human growth and development (FLE)) aligned with the Virginia Standards of Learning for Health and Physical Education.

Students must have access to a computer (not tablet or smartphone) for multiple hours each weekday to complete the required assignments and are encouraged to use their FCPS issued laptops. If the student is a rising 9th grader, they can contact the high school they will be attending in the fall.

For HPE 10, the driver education curriculum will be taught by your child’s teacher and will cover all the requirements as outlined in the Standards of Learning. You and your child will be required to attend a 90 minute synchronous session (will need to have cameras on), time and date TBD, to satisfy the Partners for Safe Teen Driving requirement for obtaining the DEC-8 pink card (needed before your child can take behind the wheel driving instruction.)

Do you have ANY say in the hour of the day your kid gets assigned? My rising 10th grader swims in the summer and has morning practices. As swim team season is only the first 5 weeks of summer, and this is the first 4, we'd need to deconflict!

I called this morning -- they have no idea if you can switch an hour if you are assigned an hour with a conflict.... suggested I email [e-mail]

You can fairly easily. My dc has lots of friends who swim and were switched to a later session. My own DC had to switch sessions for a week due to a previously scheduled national sports event and it was not problem.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My DD did 9th and 10th grade PE over the summer and was able to connect while on vacation. It was not time-consuming at all.

I don't get the concerns here. I attended high school in Illinois and PE was mandatory all four years of high school. It was my favorite class. And I was studious - 11th out of a class of 750. I did enroll in the competitive PE because I was a D1 scholarship athlete and actually appreciated the challenge of playing sports to which I was marginally proficient. Good for ego deflation and appreciating the skills of others. My senior year I enrolled in the PE class which promised always to go outdoors, no matter the weather. Not sure any school would do this today in a litigation happy environment. Playing street hockey in a blizzard in the parking lot may sound extreme, but it was incredibly fun, and had none of the pressure I felt in being a state champion in my sport, which, for a poor person like me, was satisfying but grinding. The school had PE offerings for those who merely wanted exercise or outdoor adventure experiences (there was a rock climbing class). Even if kids don't feel athletic, they benefit from PE. At my alumni gatherings, even the non-athletic types look fondly on PE. As an aside, it was also a great place for the school's best athletes to lead in a campaign against bullying. The school knew its stuff in that regard. A big component of my grade was sportsmanship and treating everyone well.

Oh, well, if YOU liked PE then everyone should!!! My kid is a high performing athlete does just fine on the fitness aspect and doesn't need to learn the rules of frisbee golf or cycling. DC also didn't like it b/c of a lot of the clique-y behavior in PE, being sweating the rest of the day, having to change clothes. ANd DC needed the elective space so it was the obvious thing to go. And not a moment's regret about that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My DD did 9th and 10th grade PE over the summer and was able to connect while on vacation. It was not time-consuming at all.

I don't get the concerns here. I attended high school in Illinois and PE was mandatory all four years of high school. It was my favorite class. And I was studious - 11th out of a class of 750. I did enroll in the competitive PE because I was a D1 scholarship athlete and actually appreciated the challenge of playing sports to which I was marginally proficient. Good for ego deflation and appreciating the skills of others. My senior year I enrolled in the PE class which promised always to go outdoors, no matter the weather. Not sure any school would do this today in a litigation happy environment. Playing street hockey in a blizzard in the parking lot may sound extreme, but it was incredibly fun, and had none of the pressure I felt in being a state champion in my sport, which, for a poor person like me, was satisfying but grinding. The school had PE offerings for those who merely wanted exercise or outdoor adventure experiences (there was a rock climbing class). Even if kids don't feel athletic, they benefit from PE. At my alumni gatherings, even the non-athletic types look fondly on PE. As an aside, it was also a great place for the school's best athletes to lead in a campaign against bullying. The school knew its stuff in that regard. A big component of my grade was sportsmanship and treating everyone well.

No one is anti PE, there just isn’t room for everything in the schedule. My kid wants band, and computer science, and Latin. There’s no room.

+1 the vast majority of kids who take it in the summer do so because they want to free up their schedule to take electives. Freshman year you only get 1 elective due to the PE requirement. Kids who want to take Band/orchestra or chorus AND want to do computer science or an art(or any other elective) are forced to wait until their junior year thus not allowing them to progress through the series of the elective.

[YuppersLocal]

Someone on this thread said that HPE 9 through FCPS online summer is not 5-6 hours of work a day. Can others confirm? My DD would like to take PE over the summer. Is Virtual Virginia not really 6-7 hours of work a day either?

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YuppersLocal wrote:Someone on this thread said that HPE 9 through FCPS online summer is not 5-6 hours of work a day. Can others confirm? My DD would like to take PE over the summer. Is Virtual Virginia not really 6-7 hours of work a day either?

My DD took PE 9 and 10 in the summer. It was about an hour of online content (sometimes 90 min.), 1 hour of a physical activity that had to be tracked (and she would have done that anyway), and 1-2 hours (though usually closer to an hour) of homework. There was some extra stuff: CPR, a video for drivers ed. But generally it was about 3 hours of work/day on average.

[Anonymous]

Does the one hour of physical activity have to be done all at once, or can it be broken up into two half an hour segments?

Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am not sure how many times you can miss but I had received this back about the course. But I do know it is very important to be at all the Drivers Ed classes as that is non-negotiable as you have to have so many classroom hours as that is regulated by the state.




The daily virtual 1-hour meetings are held between 8 am and 2 pm, but the times won’t be assigned until after June 10 (close of registration). On June 17, the teachers will email students and parents with details on how to start the course, including the assigned time for the daily meetings.

The approximate 5-6 hours of daily asynchronous activities includes

· 60 minutes of physical exercise (documented using a device capable of tracking their heart rate that they have access to or a downloadable, free app for their smartphone),

· a reflection and analysis of their physical exercise, and

· daily assignments/assessments (topics ranging from fitness, CPR(HPE9), driver education (HPE10), human growth and development (FLE)) aligned with the Virginia Standards of Learning for Health and Physical Education.

Students must have access to a computer (not tablet or smartphone) for multiple hours each weekday to complete the required assignments and are encouraged to use their FCPS issued laptops. If the student is a rising 9th grader, they can contact the high school they will be attending in the fall.

For HPE 10, the driver education curriculum will be taught by your child’s teacher and will cover all the requirements as outlined in the Standards of Learning. You and your child will be required to attend a 90 minute synchronous session (will need to have cameras on), time and date TBD, to satisfy the Partners for Safe Teen Driving requirement for obtaining the DEC-8 pink card (needed before your child can take behind the wheel driving instruction.)

Do you have ANY say in the hour of the day your kid gets assigned? My rising 10th grader swims in the summer and has morning practices. As swim team season is only the first 5 weeks of summer, and this is the first 4, we'd need to deconflict!

I called this morning -- they have no idea if you can switch an hour if you are assigned an hour with a conflict.... suggested I email [e-mail]

DD took 9th over the summer. We emailed and asked for an early time frame vs what she got. There were no garuantees but they did change it and switched her to another teacher at an earlier time.