I'm curious what they are adding into the extra semester. The one semester was basically nutrition, exercise, sex ed, and mental health. (My oldest did it last summer online and had the experience that PPs did - it was boring, fair amount of busy work, not particularly well taught, but not hard.)

When I was in HS, I took it over the summer but my school district didn't offer it so I had to take a college level course that was designed for nursing students -- it was really hard with a lot of factual specifics about blood pressure, heart rate, first aid treatments, blood types, diseases, etc. It was interesting but I think it brought down my GPA.

Anonymous wrote:How can they require this class when the curriculum hasn't even been developed? There are seriously more important things to be focusing on.

It’s a new state requirement.

Anonymous wrote:Any updates? Are your kids not registering for Health next year, but hope to take it over the next two summers?

That’s what my 9th grader is doing. They’d rather do short sessions over 2 summers than lose an entire summer to a boring class, anyway.

Anonymous wrote:How can they require this class when the curriculum hasn't even been developed? There are seriously more important things to be focusing on.

I agree, but counselors are emailing kids to register now.