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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In the core curriculum, TJ will allow online:

PE 9 & 10
Spanish III
9th grade history & 12th grade AP government
EPF

There are also a few electives, like AP psych.

Your kid would not be able to do summer TJ based classes, because they meet in class 7 hours a day/ 5 days a week.  So they would be limited to the online classes in the summer.

TJ considers 9th grade IBET (Bio, English, Design Tech), and  9th grade math, 10th grade integrated Humanities (Hum 1), And 11th grade Humanities (Hum 2) to be core classes that cannot be done online.  The humanities blocks are critical, and teach scientific research and writing and overlap with other classes.

They will let you do AP gov (and Singleton AP Lit or Lang in in 12th) and your 4th history credit online (because there isn’t room in the schedule to take history in 9th).

You do have to take CS in addition to 4 year of math at TJ (MS won’t count). You do need to take prerecs for Senior labs. You do need 3 years of one language (cannot do 2 and 2). You do need to set aside a period for senior research lab.

You are limited to 1 online class per academic year.

If your kid needs adaptive PE, they can’t do that online.

I don’t see how it’s done. And I would never put a kid into TJ who could not give it 100%. But if your kid can get in, maybe they can find a path.

But,  I don’t see a way that it works half time. [/quote]

Just to be clear, homebound instruction (where the school system agrees that a kid can't attend class due to medical reasons) is a different thing from just taking online classes.  The rules are different.  For example, for kids in base high schools, you're limited to 2 classes online, but a kid on homebound can do all of their classes online, or at least out of school.

As far as adaptive PE, yes my kid would need adaptive PE to participate in on campus PE, but my understanding of online PE (and maybe I'm wrong), is that the kids do the academic "health" portions online and then provide some kind of documentation that they did the required physical activities?  I know at one online school (not FCPS) we looked at, they used fitbits and videos for the documentation.  If so, that seems relatively easy to adapt.  If someone has done the online PE and can share what it's like, that would be great.  
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