Honors Health Education B will not be offered in CHSSP for summer 2023

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Anonymous wrote:Individual high schools are able to offer Health B as part of their local program. They need to share info with the community right after spring break.

Did MCPS actually announce that Health B is available this summer in person? Any links?

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It is not being offered in person or online in Montgomery county. I saw it on their website.

Can you post the link please? Thank you!

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Anonymous wrote:They have said this multiple times. One reason is they don’t have a curriculum yet.

Then they are behind.

Actual MSDE is behind.

MSDE should change the requirement so '25 does not have to deal with this nonsense!

+1 How the heck can they make it a requirement when they don't even have the curriculum. Seriously?

And they can’t/won’t even say for certain when it will be available in summer school or virtually. My IB diploma-track sophomore is still in limbo, both schedule-wise and summer job-wise, with regard to their next two years.

Mine too. The thought of squeezing this class in and then having to take another arts class to balance the year is infuriating. Health/ceramics or econA/econB. I even emailed msde a few months ago and they indicated it would be available in person this summer, but no guarantees for online option.

If they want Econ why can't they take Econ A and Health?

It’s a full year class.

Really? I thought one of them prepares the students for AP Microeconomics and the other for AP Macroeconomics; so students can choose to take either A or B or both?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is disappointing as our high school told us that it would be offered. Based on this erroneous info, several rising juniors who have already taken health A have to squeeze a semester class into their already submitted schedules. There aren't many semester options to pair this class with if you already completed your electives. I don't understand why they can't get their act together and teach this worthless class over the summer. And calling it "honors" is a joke.

There is a chance you may be able to take in online during the school year. At least according to this announcement from last year:

https://news.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/quicknotes/new-health-education-requirement-beginning-with-class-of-2025/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Individual high schools are able to offer Health B as part of their local program. They need to share info with the community right after spring break.

Did MCPS actually announce that Health B is available this summer in person? Any links?

Thanks!

MCPS has not said anything because it will not be made available through central online summer school. Health B will only be available if individual high schools choose to offer it over the summer. It will be an individual high school decision and shared at the school level
after spring break. Schools have a choice whether or not to offer it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Individual high schools are able to offer Health B as part of their local program. They need to share info with the community right after spring break.

Did MCPS actually announce that Health B is available this summer in person? Any links?

Thanks!

MCPS has not said anything because it will not be made available through central online summer school. Health B will only be available if individual high schools choose to offer it over the summer. It will be an individual high school decision and shared at the school level
after spring break. Schools have a choice whether or not to offer it.

Some High Schoola offered B this year in person; ours did not due to staffing issues. This Health B situation is terrible. The state should not have, in the summer between 8th and 9th grade for the class of 25, assigned a new requirement when there was no curriculum. All the summer school issues flow from this bad state decision. Nonetheless, MCPS needs to focus on finding several alternatives for getting the class of 25 through the class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Individual high schools are able to offer Health B as part of their local program. They need to share info with the community right after spring break.

Did MCPS actually announce that Health B is available this summer in person? Any links?

Thanks!

MCPS has not said anything because it will not be made available through central online summer school. Health B will only be available if individual high schools choose to offer it over the summer. It will be an individual high school decision and shared at the school level
after spring break. Schools have a choice whether or not to offer it.

So each school also offers a summer school, in addition to the online option?

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If your kid is taking summer classes to keep up such a hard curriculum - that is on YOU as parents. No child who is getting great grades should have to do summer school so they can jam pack their schedule with AP's.

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Anonymous wrote:If your kid is taking summer classes to keep up such a hard curriculum - that is on YOU as parents. No child who is getting great grades should have to do summer school so they can jam pack their schedule with AP's.

Or, they are doing it to take fun electives as they only get one fun elective per semester.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your kid is taking summer classes to keep up such a hard curriculum - that is on YOU as parents. No child who is getting great grades should have to do summer school so they can jam pack their schedule with AP's.

Some of them are doing it so they can keep an arts elective (music, visual, theater) in their schedule during the school year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If your kid is taking summer classes to keep up such a hard curriculum - that is on YOU as parents. No child who is getting great grades should have to do summer school so they can jam pack their schedule with AP's.

Some of them are doing it so they can keep an arts elective (music, visual, theater) in their schedule during the school year.

There are some kids out there who demand a tough schedule because they are otherwise bored all day in school ... not always the parents!

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Looks like Wootton is offering Health B virtually this summer. Registration opens April 12 and Wootton students have priority, so there may not be space for other students, but it seemed worth sharing here. Session runs June 28 to July 18, M/W/F.
https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/woottonhs/news-index/2023/march/summer-program-information/

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Anonymous wrote:My daughter has a friend in Howard County who has already signed up for Health 2, online summer class. I don't know if Health 2 = Health B, but if it does, them it is MCPS screwing it up, not MSDE. Summer school registration in HC has already closed - MCPS hasn't even started......

This. It is definitely an issue with MCPS.

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Why can’t they just take it during the school year?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:If your kid is taking summer classes to keep up such a hard curriculum - that is on YOU as parents. No child who is getting great grades should have to do summer school so they can jam pack their schedule with AP's.

Some of them are doing it so they can keep an arts elective (music, visual, theater) in their schedule during the school year.

Precisely - some kids even want to *gasp* take multiple music or art classes. It isn’t all an AP rat race. And even so, who cares? Taking health everyday for a year would be a waste for many kids. If it works for you great

[Anonymous]

We just left Whitman and our new local school permits an online version of health through Bingham Young University (yes, I know, mormon etc). And that might be something to suggest as the curriculum is exactly the same.