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[quote=Anonymous]I think doing the tech credit is a great idea to do over the summer. It will cost $600 though for the full class -- $300 per semester. My DS did the computer science one last summer because neither his computer programming nor his AP Programming Java classes fulfills the tech ed requirement. So ridiculous.
 
It was so painfully basic and boring that it was better to just rip the band-aid off and get it done in six weeks. I can't imagine how boring a year-long class would have been.

However the blended learning model is three three-hour face-to-face sessions and the rest online modules. It's not a full day's worth of activity so it's easy enough to do other stuff during the day (go to the pool, hang out with friends, go to the library, or something more structured).

My DS also did the health credit over the summer previously -- your kid has to have finished 9th, though, so it wouldn't work for this summer. He took non-honors because honestly a one-semester weighted vs. unweighted A would have made no discernable difference in his GPA.

As to the PP -- I hear what you're saying about filling out the schedule, but for my senior, it was critical to do these two classes as summer classes so he could fit the rest of what he wanted to do in four years in. He's taken band all four years for example, so doing these others during the summer helped protect that slot. He's taking AP Chem this year, which is two periods, so that leaves less flexibility once you add in English, math, AP Java, and band -- he's taking AP macro/micro, which he's always wanted to do. If he hadn't taken tech this summer he wouldn't have been able to take econ. AP Bio is also two periods (and he hasn't taken it) but that can be hard to work around as well.

OP -- somewhat off-topic from the summer class options, but I highly recommend sitting down with the HS course catalog and requirements and sketching out what a 4-year plan is going to look like with requirements like PE, tech, health, English and math all four years, etc. It can get surprisingly tricky to puzzle everything together particularly if your DD has an art interest or a performing art she wants to do all four years.[/quote]

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