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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Health curricula for summer appears to be same/similar to what they learn in MS. It does not seem a lot of new topics or workload for the kids in summer school. I would like to see what others have to say.[/quote]

DS is in 9th and just finished Health A online.  I'm not sure about summer school, but the school year version is 6 weeks.  It's not hard but as others have said it is a lot of busy work.  There was nothing in the topics that he didn't already know---STIs, Nutrition, mental health, opioids, alcohol, and a few other topics.  What made it challenging was the pace of the class and the workload.  Each week there are 6 -8 assignments/quizzes due; late submissions incurred a 10% penalty per day, and all work had to be turned in by Sat of that week.  There also were not redos or retakes.  Quizzes were a combination of multiple choice and essay.  The multiple choice questions often had multiple answers and you had to select the correct 2-4 in order to receive full credit.  There was an SSL project, a few research projects, and a few presentations.

TBH, DS didn't learn anything new about the health topics.  But he did learn how to budget his time, how to look ahead at the calendar, that doing a large amount of work over the weekend prior create less stress during the week, how to incorporate teacher feedback to improve his next submission, that 2-3 sentences was not a complete response, and how to research by using sources from one site to find additional information.  The value for DS was in the study skills, not the content.[/quote]

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