TJ 2029: Summer PE FCPS or Virtual Virginia

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Anonymous wrote:We had the same question and ended up with what our high school counselor recommended - an online school called Excel, whose credits are apparently accepted everywhere.

Sounds like a great Counselor willing to help the students. Our MS counselor just reiterated what the website said - Slots are full

You can do that yourself, all the counselor needs to do is send you a form. They should do that if you ask. We liked that one bc it's entirely asynchronous.

I don’t think that is true for FCPS. You need approval from someone in FCPS to sign up for virtual VA because it is an exception to the norm of the FCPS class they want people to take as the default.

Whatever you do DOCUMENT it. We got something approved by our base MS and then later ran into issues with the TJ counselor questioning it. But we had already sent her the base school approval and gotten her to ok it before summer (she forgot though later). Keep you emails.

We are at Langley High, and the counselor recommended Excel high school- virtual and fully asynchronous for summer PE. You tell them you want this, they send you a form indicating the school, and that was it for us. Pretty painless...

Hi! Is this PE 9 or PE 10 from Excel?

Here is what the counselor said:

"If he is interested in an asynchronous course, you will need to take the course outside FCPS with a virtual high school that is approved by the Virginia Council on Private Education (VCPE). A popular VCPE-approved virtual school among Langley families is Excel High School. Their “Health & Fitness” course, both Sem A and Sem B, can be utilized for the FCPS Health/PE 9 course. I’ve attached an updated form for you to use if you want to utilize Excel HS. Also, registration and any questions you have about the course is entirely between you and them – FCPS has nothing to do with the course, other than taking in the credit once completed."

Does this mean the student has to take semester A and Semester B? And how does the CPR requirement work?

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We are at Langley High, and the counselor recommended Excel high school- virtual and fully asynchronous for summer PE. You tell them you want this, they send you a form indicating the school, and that was it for us. Pretty painless...

This is so helpful, thank you! Trying to get PE out of the way for upcoming TJ freshman but have conflicts with the daily zoom portion of FCPS PE.

Does TJ accept PE from excel high school??

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When my kid did online PE with VV, i signed her up to do CPR privately with Purple Health and Safety. Did it is Reston, went great.

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For those that had kids take Excel High School PE - was it just a "get through" class? I don't want to be offensive of dismissive or any other adjective other than informative, but wanting know going through FCPS there are tasks to be done and exercise but otherwise not difficult. Is that same for Excel?

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We are at Langley High, and the counselor recommended Excel high school- virtual and fully asynchronous for summer PE. You tell them you want this, they send you a form indicating the school, and that was it for us. Pretty painless...

This is so helpful, thank you! Trying to get PE out of the way for upcoming TJ freshman but have conflicts with the daily zoom portion of FCPS PE.

Does TJ accept PE from excel high school??

Yes

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

We are at Langley High, and the counselor recommended Excel high school- virtual and fully asynchronous for summer PE. You tell them you want this, they send you a form indicating the school, and that was it for us. Pretty painless...

This is so helpful, thank you! Trying to get PE out of the way for upcoming TJ freshman but have conflicts with the daily zoom portion of FCPS PE.

Does TJ accept PE from excel high school??

Yes, no, maybe - are the possible answers from the anonymous genies here. But only the counselor is the supreme pharaoh.

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Anonymous wrote:

We are at Langley High, and the counselor recommended Excel high school- virtual and fully asynchronous for summer PE. You tell them you want this, they send you a form indicating the school, and that was it for us. Pretty painless...

This is so helpful, thank you! Trying to get PE out of the way for upcoming TJ freshman but have conflicts with the daily zoom portion of FCPS PE.

Does TJ accept PE from excel high school??

Yes, no, maybe - are the possible answers from the anonymous genies here. But only the counselor is the supreme pharaoh.

My kids has been approved by TJ to take Excel PE.