Summer classes??
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Anonymous
| DD 14 will be a ninth grader this fall and really wants to take summer Spanish and Geometry classes. Does anyone have recommendations for where she could take them? |
Anonymous
| They usually offer geometry at Edmund Burke in the summer. |
Anonymous
| This needs a location. VA vs DC vs MD gets you different answers. |
Anonymous
OP, can you give us more details? Also, is your DD wanting classes in order to fulfill requirements and skip taking those classes at her high school? If that's the case, she may need to take the summer classes offered by her school system and they may not accept any other classes for that purpose. (For instance, a friend's DS took Spanish II last summer through the FCPS summer online program so he could move from Spanish 1 in ninth grade to Spanish 3 in 10th. If he'd taken Spanish II over the summer elsewhere, I guess he could have tried to test out of that level and into level 3 but because he took it through the school system, it was immediately accepted as a course credit.) Look at your school system's web site for high school summer classes and be sure to ask a counselor as well. It would be a pity if your DD took summer classes thinking they would fulfill requirements and then found out they didn't and she had to take those subjects again in the school year. If she is just seeking to take classes out of interest, or to keep up skills between school years, or to get ahead so she's readier when the school-year classes begin, then it would matter much less (or not at all) if she does them wherever she likes. But her reason for taking summer classes does matter a lot. |
Anonymous
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OP here. Location: We live in Northern Va, but we do everything in Bethesda/Rockville area.
Purpose: She just wants to take the classes to make sure she is completely ready to enter ninth grade. It's not a necessary thing for her to do before high school, but she wants to do it and I'm down for it. |
Anonymous
| Montgomery College in Rockville has summer math classes to prepare for the next math course. Search youth summer programs. |
Anonymous
| Try to work through her school or at least district, so that she can actually get credit for the classes. |