Friendly PSA about Virtual Virginia Summer PE (APS edition)

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Anonymous wrote:I am reviving this thread again. I am not the PP but have similar questions.

How long are the VV recorded sessions? About how much time should we plan for each day for the kid to keep up with the course? Is it ok to save some of the sessions to the weekends? So do 2 on Saturday and 2 on Sunday as an example.

My DD’s school counselor said they will not accept VV this year. They will only accept the in person PE at Yorktown

At what school? Not what ours said.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am reviving this thread again. I am not the PP but have similar questions.

How long are the VV recorded sessions? About how much time should we plan for each day for the kid to keep up with the course? Is it ok to save some of the sessions to the weekends? So do 2 on Saturday and 2 on Sunday as an example.

My DD’s school counselor said they will not accept VV this year. They will only accept the in person PE at Yorktown

I emailed APS summer school office and asked. This was the response:

Good morning,

Thank you for reaching out to us with your question. Yes, students can sign-up to take HPE I through Virtual Virginia. this upcoming summer.

[Anonymous]

It is baffling why it is so difficult to get information about the VV option. It's been around for years and even the APS counselors seem to give such inconsistent information.

My kid was told recently that the 150 minutes per week exercise requirement could not be the same activity the whole time. So for example if your kid is on the swim team, only one week of swim will count and the other weeks they need to find something else to count as exercise (even though they would be swimming every week). No where else have I ever heard this so have zero idea if it's true or not.

[Anonymous]

I was told by the WMS counselor that they would only accept APS summer school, not VV PE. Vv works with my kid’s schedule. APS does not. Is there no clear answer here? This seems so silly that different folks are getting different answers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was told by the WMS counselor that they would only accept APS summer school, not VV PE. Vv works with my kid’s schedule. APS does not. Is there no clear answer here? This seems so silly that different folks are getting different answers.

Swanson and Yorktown counselors indicated to my kid that VV was acceptable and previous responder to this thread said they heard that from APS summer school VV is acceptable. Which makes sense. VV is generally acceptable so why would they signal out PE and say they don't take it?

It is more work for the counselor to deal with VV so don't know the situation, but maybe they are putting you off due to that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was told by the WMS counselor that they would only accept APS summer school, not VV PE. Vv works with my kid’s schedule. APS does not. Is there no clear answer here? This seems so silly that different folks are getting different answers.

Swanson and Yorktown counselors indicated to my kid that VV was acceptable and previous responder to this thread said they heard that from APS summer school VV is acceptable. Which makes sense. VV is generally acceptable so why would they single out PE and say they don't take it?

It is more work for the counselor to deal with VV so don't know the situation, but maybe they are putting you off due to that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was told by the WMS counselor that they would only accept APS summer school, not VV PE. Vv works with my kid’s schedule. APS does not. Is there no clear answer here? This seems so silly that different folks are getting different answers.

There's a difference between PE 9 and PE 10.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That is crap. And completely unfair to kids involved in the arts. Particularly in the IB program, but across all the schools. There will be a mutiny if they don’t allow this.

What does this mean? How does this impacts kids in the arts (not being contrary, I just dont understand).

It’s often hard for kids who want to do IB or AP sciences (which require 2 blocks) to get in all the requirements and take band or chorus all 4 years. Summer PE is a way to get back a block or two for music. And FCPS allows it as does LCPS. So there will be a lot of complaints if APS doesn’t. Starting with me. 😀

One thing about Loudoun is that they don't allow using Virtual Virginia for PE... you have to use Virtual Loudoun which based on everything I've heard is a TON more work than what the OP has described for Virtual Virginia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is baffling why it is so difficult to get information about the VV option. It's been around for years and even the APS counselors seem to give such inconsistent information.

My kid was told recently that the 150 minutes per week exercise requirement could not be the same activity the whole time. So for example if your kid is on the swim team, only one week of swim will count and the other weeks they need to find something else to count as exercise (even though they would be swimming every week). No where else have I ever heard this so have zero idea if it's true or not.

When mine did VV PE10, the rule ws no more than 90 (120?) minutes could be one activity EACH WEEK. So, if your kid is a swimmer, the coach can only sign off on the allowed number of minutes each week. THe other 60 (30?) had to be something else. It could be walking with a pedometer or strength training. It was no big deal.

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Question about virtual Virginia, if your kid has a sleepaway camp during one of the weeks, is that an issue? Meaning are they able to log the time they spent doing physical activity when theh return; or is there typically some sort of requirement to have to login every day? This is only a three day sports camp, and I would hate to cancel it.