About Summer HS classes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Summer school is only 2 weeks per session?

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/extendedhours/summerschool/central-high-school-summer-school-program/

July 7: First day of classes for Session 1

July 21: Last day of Session 1 courses


July 23: First day of Session 2 courses

August 6: Last day of Session 2 courses

I don't know that it is a whole lot shorter than past. They always had a class session off for a holiday and the final class was not required unless you needed to speak to the teacher.

I don’t love how they split the week. I signed my kid up for something the week of July 20th thinking it would overlap with one of the two sessions and he would do the other session. Unfortunately it seems to overlap with both of the summer sessions due to how they did the dates this year, so now he can’t do either session due to one single week’s conflict.

Kid can't sign up for the evening session for the one evening of session 2?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Summer school is only 2 weeks per session?

https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/extendedhours/summerschool/central-high-school-summer-school-program/

July 7: First day of classes for Session 1

July 21: Last day of Session 1 courses


July 23: First day of Session 2 courses

August 6: Last day of Session 2 courses

I don't know that it is a whole lot shorter than past. They always had a class session off for a holiday and the final class was not required unless you needed to speak to the teacher.

I don’t love how they split the week. I signed my kid up for something the week of July 20th thinking it would overlap with one of the two sessions and he would do the other session. Unfortunately it seems to overlap with both of the summer sessions due to how they did the dates this year, so now he can’t do either session due to one single week’s conflict.

Kid can't sign up for the evening session for the one evening of session 2?

No, without going into too much detail, the conflict is in a different time zone and not in a place where kid could stop and do a synchronous zoom. Like a group overnight hiking/camping situation.

[Anonymous]

I wish they would update the site with the list of high schools so I could see if it is doable for my kid.

[Anonymous]

Today my kid’s counselor refused to let them take health over the summer. The counselor apparently said, “No, you’re not doing that because it isn’t free. That would cost $700.”

So tired of emailing MCPS to call them out for being incompetent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Today my kid’s counselor refused to let them take health over the summer. The counselor apparently said, “No, you’re not doing that because it isn’t free. That would cost $700.”

So tired of emailing MCPS to call them out for being incompetent.

What?! How is that up to the counselor to decide?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Today my kid’s counselor refused to let them take health over the summer. The counselor apparently said, “No, you’re not doing that because it isn’t free. That would cost $700.”

So tired of emailing MCPS to call them out for being incompetent.

Its actually a sliding scale - did you email them and say you are ok paying?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Today my kid’s counselor refused to let them take health over the summer. The counselor apparently said, “No, you’re not doing that because it isn’t free. That would cost $700.”

So tired of emailing MCPS to call them out for being incompetent.

Its actually a sliding scale - did you email them and say you are ok paying?

I need my blood pressure to return to normal before I email the counselor. It’s been a long year with this school and their missteps.

[Anonymous]

There's a bit more information posted on the site now. Looks like the virtual classes (health and tech) meet every day M-Th of the sessions, for 9 total classes of 1.5 hours each (13.5 hours total). This is a change from previous years, where they met for 8 sessions over ~3 weeks (note every day) for 1.25 hours each time (10 hours total). And all the virtual sessions are in the evening, starting at 7:15 PM.
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/extendedhours/summerschool/central-high-school-summer-school-program/

They still don't have the locations for in-person posted, but that also looks like 9 days also (M-Th) from 8-2:30 each day.

[Anonymous]

I was told by the math teacher that if my kid cannot take one session only. It must be 2 sessions. Otherwise he would start the class all over again in 9th grade. Is that right? Can he take health just the first session and do the second session next summer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I was told by the math teacher that if my kid cannot take one session only. It must be 2 sessions. Otherwise he would start the class all over again in 9th grade. Is that right? Can he take health just the first session and do the second session next summer?

Yes, you can split health over 2 summers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's a bit more information posted on the site now. Looks like the virtual classes (health and tech) meet every day M-Th of the sessions, for 9 total classes of 1.5 hours each (13.5 hours total). This is a change from previous years, where they met for 8 sessions over ~3 weeks (note every day) for 1.25 hours each time (10 hours total). And all the virtual sessions are in the evening, starting at 7:15 PM.
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/extendedhours/summerschool/central-high-school-summer-school-program/

They still don't have the locations for in-person posted, but that also looks like 9 days also (M-Th) from 8-2:30 each day.

Thanks! I think meeting more frequently for the virtual is a good thing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Today my kid’s counselor refused to let them take health over the summer. The counselor apparently said, “No, you’re not doing that because it isn’t free. That would cost $700.”

So tired of emailing MCPS to call them out for being incompetent.

You need to call out this horrible counselor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Today my kid’s counselor refused to let them take health over the summer. The counselor apparently said, “No, you’re not doing that because it isn’t free. That would cost $700.”

So tired of emailing MCPS to call them out for being incompetent.

You need to call out this horrible counselor.

The worst part is that this counselor is the head of the department!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's a bit more information posted on the site now. Looks like the virtual classes (health and tech) meet every day M-Th of the sessions, for 9 total classes of 1.5 hours each (13.5 hours total). This is a change from previous years, where they met for 8 sessions over ~3 weeks (note every day) for 1.25 hours each time (10 hours total). And all the virtual sessions are in the evening, starting at 7:15 PM.
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/extendedhours/summerschool/central-high-school-summer-school-program/

They still don't have the locations for in-person posted, but that also looks like 9 days also (M-Th) from 8-2:30 each day.

This is a lot of change. Last summer there was a daytime virtual option. And students could take two courses per session. Now only one. I’m glad we weren’t counting on getting that accomplished but this is all a bit limiting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There's a bit more information posted on the site now. Looks like the virtual classes (health and tech) meet every day M-Th of the sessions, for 9 total classes of 1.5 hours each (13.5 hours total). This is a change from previous years, where they met for 8 sessions over ~3 weeks (note every day) for 1.25 hours each time (10 hours total). And all the virtual sessions are in the evening, starting at 7:15 PM.
https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/departments/extendedhours/summerschool/central-high-school-summer-school-program/

They still don't have the locations for in-person posted, but that also looks like 9 days also (M-Th) from 8-2:30 each day.

This is a lot of change. Last summer there was a daytime virtual option. And students could take two courses per session. Now only one. I’m glad we weren’t counting on getting that accomplished but this is all a bit limiting.

Two virtual classes in one session? Given how much outside work there is for each, that does not seem wise. I imagine very few kids did that successfully.