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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can riding 9th graders take this online in summer school to get it over with? [/quote]

In theory, yes.  In practice, it's a little complicated.  This summer, like last summer, they are only offering Health A during summer school.  Will they offer Health B in future summers?  One would hope, but who knows.  So you could take the first half in summer, but then be stuck with an awkward semester long class that you'll have to take later in the regular school year. It's also a little challenging if your kid has any summer commitments, as it's a pretty long class, and you can pick either an online night version, or an online afternoon version, but then you have to be there every day.  One of my kids did it a couple of years ago (when it was only a semester commitment).  I looked for the other one and our planned summer vacation knocks out both sessions, so he just can't do it.  I think it would also be hard for a kid with a summer job or that is doing any sleep away camp.

My kid that took the Health A over summer school HATED it -- it was a LOT Of work that she said was all basically repetitive busy work.  They take all the meaningless homework assignments that kids have to do over the whole 5 month semester, and crunch it into 3 weeks, so you're doing multiple busy work assignments per day.    [/quote]

I get that the state had good intentions, but this stuff never works. They will gloss over anything remotely useful in life and basically just make this into an exercise in gratuitous cruelty.[/quote]

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