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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your kid doesn't have to take PE freshman year. Mine is taking it this year as a sophomore because he wanted to take both biology and chemistry last year.

I would get your high school's course catalog as well as the MCPS graduation requirements and sit down with your student and sketch out a rough progression. This doesn't commit your kid, obviously, but it can give you an idea of evening out the workload.

Last year, for example, my kid (who is in an honors program) took six academic classes and band. This year, he's taking five academic classes, band, and PE. Two of his classes are AP, and he's in honors English, precalc, and a foreign language. It's good for him to have the PE course to help balance out his heavy academic load, especially as he plays a varsity sport that requires a significant time commitment throughout the school year.

He took health as the 3-week online/face-to-face course over this last summer, because that frees him up to take another full-year class during the year rather than balance out with a one-semester class. He is considering getting his tech ed class done over a summer as well, or else deferring it to senior year as an easy class to balance out the load then.[/quote]

Depends on the school re your gym recommendation. At our high school, 9th graders are encouraged to take gym freshman year and it was really fun for my daughter who had a bunch of friends in the class as they were all freshmen. 
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