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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's allowed.  I don't think that VV offers the Driver's Ed portion, however, so you have to contract for that separately.  I'm not sure how they handle grading since Driver's Ed is part of the normal curriculum.

Because of that, all of the kids I know (including my own) who took HPE10 in the summer did it through the FCPS online-campus even if they'd done VV for HPE9.[/quote]

I am willing to pay for Driver's Ed, it says you can enroll separately.  Unfortunately, we can't make the online-campus work due to scheduling problems.

Did your kid do VV for HPE9. Can you tell me how it worked?[/quote]

Sorry, I'm not much help as DC only did HPE10 over the summer; HPE9 was in school.  All I can say is that the one kid I know who did HPE9 with VV found it pretty easy and the work out requirements seemed less strict than those for the on-line campus.[/quote]

Thanks!  My kid is a pretty serious athlete, which is why we have the scheduling conflict with the on-line campus, but my understanding is that he could count what he's already doing for the workout part.

I am hoping to find out how much work the rest of it is.  The on-line campus said to expect to spend 6 hours a day.  Which wouldn't work for us, unless he could count all his hours of working out towards that.  VV doesn't say anything about the number of hours.  It just says you can miss class and watch a recording, which is why I am hoping it might work.  [/quote]

My kid spent nowhere near 6 hours a day through the online campus, including the one hour class and one hour workout (which can be divided into two 30 minute sessions).  There are heart rate targets each week so whether your DC can use his sport will depend on what he does and what the current goal is.  My kid swims, and unfortunately that didn't meet the required metrics for all of the units (plus she hated swimming with my Apple Watch on) so she was only able to submit that data occasionally and had to do other workouts the rest of the time.

Overall, it was pretty easy.  DD took it P/F so didn't take it all that seriously, skipped two assignments related to a sensitive subject entirely, and still earned the equivalent of an A-.  Had she cared, she'd absolutely have gotten an A without much more effort.  The hardest part of the online campus is that you must attend the daily class for an hour.  They will work with you if your assigned time is a conflict (DD got a morning slot that was during swim practice and I was easily able to get her moved to an afternoon meeting).[/quote]

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