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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Finish your health using 8th grade or 9th grade summer. That's my only useful suggestion. Health A and B are completely waste of time and they appear absolutely no use at all for college application. For fine arts, maybe your kid would find it interesting and want to pursue AP 2D arts or 3D arts later. For PE, if your DC does not plan to involve in varsity sports, then taking PE before senior year might help demonstrate they are not too nerdy, otherwise, using PE as a relaxing timeslot to take a break from senior year application stress is not a bad idea.[/quote]

Except they just changed summer options. Look closely at the schedule for in person and virtual. Seems like it will conflict with a lot of common teen summer activities like swim team B meets.[/quote]

Yes, I’ve heard that from this week’s BOE meeting, and that’s because Taylor is a strong believer of in-person learning. That’s also the reason why he cancels the virtual institution.

Scrapping over health in freshman summer is still better than waiting till later when internship and summer jobs really conflict with the scheduling.[/quote]

+1. Your kid can live without swim team B.[/quote]

For a lot of kids this is their main sport. Kids are 15 between 9th and 10th grade so they are definitely swimming events at B meets on Wednesday nights.

What is the attendance policy for the virtual and in person summer classes?[/quote]

It’s mandatory attendance. It’s only 9 days of instruction covering the semester and they squeeze in tests and quizzes that can’t be made up if you miss. I’m sure if you have a super extenuating unexpected circumstance there could be flexibility but no, you probably can’t skip 2 out of 9 zooms for a swim meet without messing up the course grade. If the 7pm time slot doesn’t work you should do the daytime in person class. I empathize and think they should offer two zoom options like they did last year (1pm). [/quote]

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