Anonymous wrote:It varies by school because principals have too much power and/or don't oversee their staff well. For example, some schools don’t allow students in certain grades to take 2 electives in the same year. Make that make sense!

Huh? With 7 periods and 4-5 core subjects, how can you not take 2+ electives?

Anonymous wrote:ISO interesting HS elective for next year 9th grade student.
If a student takes Health over the summer, what class do you recommend they take during 9th grade?

Core 5: English, Math, Science, Social Studies, World Language. Plus, a tech class? What if they also take Engineering in summer school. That frees up 2 or 3 periods. A music student will take a music class. What else?

If health and engineering are in the summer, I'd take PE and music or art to finish up those. Then there will be more choice in later years.

That said, I'm not having my kid (also a current 8th grader) take both health and engineering over the summer. That just feels too much, especially engineering - where I think the benefits of working in person in groups is significant. She'll be doing that next year in school.

It varies by school because principals have too much power and/or don't oversee their staff well. For example, some schools don’t allow students in certain grades to take 2 electives in the same year. Make that make sense!

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Anonymous wrote:How many electives can you take in a semester? I mean beyond math, science, English, social studies, world language.

Do you have to take PE every semester?

Trying to figure out if my music loving kid will ever get to have another elective!

Most kids only do one year of PE. Many kids don’t do all four years of language. There are seven periods and four core classes (although I don’t think 4 years of science are required) so in theory you can have 3 electives, although you also need to fit in health and have to take an art credit at some point.

Ignoring summer school,, we have that PE, Heath, Art, and Tech are effectively 4 years worth of mandatory distribution,electives.


Only Health has only 1 course that everyone takes. There are multiple options form PE, art, and tech electives.