Summer School Health Class is awful

[Anonymous]

What did you expect from a summer program filled with 2nd tier teachers and students none who want to be there?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It was a good opportunity to show my kids that not everything the teacher tells them is right. Whoever approved this curriculum and the way it should be presented needs to be fired.
Stop telling kids that being overweight is fine. Dont tell my kids to introduce themselves using their pronouns.
This is a health class not a progressive "coddle the whiners" class. I cant wait to see what BS they come up with for Health 2.

That's fine. I'll just forcibly refer to your kids as children of the demon.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s much better to take it in person. The in person teachers typically assign work that is completed in class.

I’ve had three teens take it in person. It was not much better than what OP describes. My children learned little and we’ve had to supplement at home to make sure they knew how to stay healthy and safe.

As for the poster upset about pronouns. Asking students to share their preferred pronouns is pretty standard these days. If your DC is cis, saying his/her pronouns isn’t going to turn them trans. If your child is trans and you are in denial, using their assigned at birth pronouns won’t make them cis.

You should be teaching them that anyway. Sorry the school isn't doing your job for you.

Yes, but when a troll hears somebody ask what another wants to be called, the troll is immensely hurt because they lose something of which to make fun and bully.

[Anonymous]

My HS health class included the baseball coach (who taught it) sharing nuggets like "Some people think you can douche with a Coke bottle to avoid pregnancies, but that caused a heap of problems for some ladies." He had a whole list of vaguely horrifying things that would NOT prevent pregnancy. I always wonder if he had a whole set of illegitmate children to match.

I feel like Health class has always been a joke, will always be a joke--as it was in the beginning, is now, and forever shall be.

[Anonymous]

My summer school health class was my teacher basically telling us about the crazy stuff she got up to in her teens and then saying "don't be like me". Then she let us watch a bunch of bootlegged movies someone brought in.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid learned the concept of good foods and bad foods in heath class…

Oh, that’s infuriating. As if any food can be ‘good’ or ‘bad’.

Ugh, wish they would just skip this class!

Good: fruit and veggies, fish, lean meats and low fat dairy

Bad: saturated fats, processed carbs, red meats, candy, alcohol etc

There ARE good and bad foods.

There are no bad foods. Only bad people who eat those foods.
(Just kidding, but really I feel like assigning a moral agency to an inanimate source of calories is probably unnecessary)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My kid learned the concept of good foods and bad foods in heath class…

Oh, that’s infuriating. As if any food can be ‘good’ or ‘bad’.

Ugh, wish they would just skip this class!

Good: fruit and veggies, fish, lean meats and low fat dairy

Bad: saturated fats, processed carbs, red meats, candy, alcohol etc

There ARE good and bad foods.

This is false. Recent studies show saturated fats are meats are NOT bad and are actually good. Plants contain phytates, lectins, and oxalates, which are basically antinutrients, binding to nutrients or otherwise preventing them from being absorbed. Plants also contain poorly available forms of micronutrients like betacarotene instead of vitamin A, ALA instead of EPA/DHA, and vitamin k1 instead of k2. THese forms require conversion at very poor rates to be usable by your body. Older studies that suggested plant-based diets were better are based on terrible large epidemiological surveys with questions like, "how many times did you eat meet per week in the last 5 years?" They contain confounders and usually lump red meat with processed meat; the former is just fine, but the latter is bad. By lumping them together, the studies create poor associations. Finally, the studies also incorrectly correlate cholesterol and LDL to poor heart health. In reality, the actual association is between oxidized or damaged LDL, which is caused by inflammation (itself caused by glycation from diabetes or inflammatory grains high in omega-6 fatty acids. Having higher LDL is indicative of nothing specifically unless you look at the makeup of the LDL, which these studies don't. Instead, they just look at something that increases lipids as bad because of a false assumption that correlation has a transitive relationship.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We understood it would be compacted but this is ridiculous. The assignments are boatloads of endless busy work. I don't think the person running my son's class is even a teacher. He struggles to get the words out and fades out mid sentence only to come back on a different topic.

The quiz questions are not always clear and it just seems like someone designed it to torture these kids. There is certainly some useful information in there but it's not presented well at all.

MCPS screwed up with this new requirement. I can't imagine what Health B will be like.

Who cares about teachers? Long term subs right out of MCPS without college degrees are McKnight's new go to classroom adult. Didn't you hear her PR event today?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kid learned the concept of good foods and bad foods in heath class…

Oh, that’s infuriating. As if any food can be ‘good’ or ‘bad’.

Ugh, wish they would just skip this class!

Good: fruit and veggies, fish, lean meats and low fat dairy

Bad: saturated fats, processed carbs, red meats, candy, alcohol etc

There ARE good and bad foods.

This is false. Recent studies show saturated fats are meats are NOT bad and are actually good. Plants contain phytates, lectins, and oxalates, which are basically antinutrients, binding to nutrients or otherwise preventing them from being absorbed. Plants also contain poorly available forms of micronutrients like betacarotene instead of vitamin A, ALA instead of EPA/DHA, and vitamin k1 instead of k2. THese forms require conversion at very poor rates to be usable by your body. Older studies that suggested plant-based diets were better are based on terrible large epidemiological surveys with questions like, "how many times did you eat meet per week in the last 5 years?" They contain confounders and usually lump red meat with processed meat; the former is just fine, but the latter is bad. By lumping them together, the studies create poor associations. Finally, the studies also incorrectly correlate cholesterol and LDL to poor heart health. In reality, the actual association is between oxidized or damaged LDL, which is caused by inflammation (itself caused by glycation from diabetes or inflammatory grains high in omega-6 fatty acids. Having higher LDL is indicative of nothing specifically unless you look at the makeup of the LDL, which these studies don't. Instead, they just look at something that increases lipids as bad because of a false assumption that correlation has a transitive relationship.

A donut is still a donut

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:It’s much better to take it in person. The in person teachers typically assign work that is completed in class.

I’ve had three teens take it in person. It was not much better than what OP describes. My children learned little and we’ve had to supplement at home to make sure they knew how to stay healthy and safe.

As for the poster upset about pronouns. Asking students to share their preferred pronouns is pretty standard these days. If your DC is cis, saying his/her pronouns isn’t going to turn them trans. If your child is trans and you are in denial, using their assigned at birth pronouns won’t make them cis.

You should be teaching them that anyway. Sorry the school isn't doing your job for you.

Then how about we leave ‘health’ to the parents and let the schools stick to Math/English/Science, etc?

Because as we see in one of the first posts, some narrow-minded homophobic people do not teach pronouns, sexuality or other things that kids NEED to know. I feel bad for kids who have these right wing nut job parents who pretend to be so pure that they won't teach this stuff.
Those kids deserve to know the truth. They need to know that there are resources for them beyond their parents. Not every kid has a safe home environment (if that PP who ranted about the pronouns has a kid who wants to use a non-traditional pronoun, they are certainly not finding acceptance at home).
This class is ridiculous but it's important. It's just a shame MCPS didn't do better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My HS health class included the baseball coach (who taught it) sharing nuggets like "Some people think you can douche with a Coke bottle to avoid pregnancies, but that caused a heap of problems for some ladies." He had a whole list of vaguely horrifying things that would NOT prevent pregnancy. I always wonder if he had a whole set of illegitmate children to match.

I feel like Health class has always been a joke, will always be a joke--as it was in the beginning, is now, and forever shall be.

Did anyone else have to carry around a sack of flour for a week?

Honestly, the second semester of health should be a drivers Ed class.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:My HS health class included the baseball coach (who taught it) sharing nuggets like "Some people think you can douche with a Coke bottle to avoid pregnancies, but that caused a heap of problems for some ladies." He had a whole list of vaguely horrifying things that would NOT prevent pregnancy. I always wonder if he had a whole set of illegitmate children to match.

I feel like Health class has always been a joke, will always be a joke--as it was in the beginning, is now, and forever shall be.

Did anyone else have to carry around a sack of flour for a week?

Honestly, the second semester of health should be a drivers Ed class.

That’s how ours was. A semester of each, required.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What did you expect from a summer program filled with 2nd tier teachers and students none who want to be there?

My three kids only ever took summer classes because they wanted to get ahead. It was the same for the majority of their classmates.

Kids who failed a course typically aren’t going to do any better in the faster paced summer versions so they don’t bother making it up then.

I’m not sure what criteria you are using for judging the teachers of summer school as second tier. People teach summer school mainly for financial reasons and those can involve teachers of any caliber.

[Anonymous]

I really appreciated that my kid´s summer health teacher this summer had excellent communication and a positive, supportive attitude. The content was meh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My HS health class included the baseball coach (who taught it) sharing nuggets like "Some people think you can douche with a Coke bottle to avoid pregnancies, but that caused a heap of problems for some ladies." He had a whole list of vaguely horrifying things that would NOT prevent pregnancy. I always wonder if he had a whole set of illegitmate children to match.

I feel like Health class has always been a joke, will always be a joke--as it was in the beginning, is now, and forever shall be.

Did anyone else have to carry around a sack of flour for a week?

Honestly, the second semester of health should be a drivers Ed class.

That’s how ours was. A semester of each, required.

Are you from Arizona? Although maybe ours was just a quarter of each? Regardless, the drivers Ed was even more pointless than the health class.