About Summer HS classes

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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.

If you are traveling summer school is a bad idea. Expecting the to accommodate that is unreasonable.

I know. I wasn’t planning to have the kid do summer school while traveling. He’s just in town nearly every week of summer so it’s a bummer that because of the way the dates were chosen, he can’t do either session due to a single week traveling.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Anyone that knows MoCo knows how big summer swim is here. What happens if a kid misses every Wednesday of virtual for B meets?

That’s a good point, and no, I don’t think that will work. They take quizzes and whatnot on the zoom and there’s not a great way to make them up. Yet another reason the evening only option is limiting.

[Anonymous]

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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.

Where are you seeing the M-Th? When I look it says everyday of the session including Fridays. I like the format of the past way better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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

Where are you seeing the M-Th? When I look it says everyday of the session including Fridays. I like the format of the past way better.

It doesn't say M-Th explicitly, but it says 9 sessions total, and the slides that were presented to the Board of Ed proposed 4 days a week (M-Th), so I'm assuming that's what's happening. I think this is going to be harder on kids than the old way where they had more time between sessions, unless they cut down on the number of assignments due each day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Anyone that knows MoCo knows how big summer swim is here. What happens if a kid misses every Wednesday of virtual for B meets?

Then I guess your kid will miss out on being the next Michael Phelps.