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Anonymous wrote:People are making this scheduling out to be a big deal. It’s not. It’s a 3-4 class with synchronous classes 3 days a week for 1.5 hours. After that your kid can determine when they schedule in the homework. If they can’t do that or have a problem with then the simple solution is don’t take the class during the summer.

Health A is mostly a repeat of MS. Health B is a little different. I champion them merging PE/Health/Financial Literacy/Conflict Resolution and Leadership development into a class with the different components each covered over a quarter.

This was my child’s experience with health a this summer. They would spend an hour, at most, after class getting the assignments done. They plan to take health b next summer. Parents here are making way to big a deal of this.

Come back and visit here then if the district has not made any changes to requirements to take that Health B class.

My rising 9th grader is taking both health classes this summer - right now he's in the middle of health B. He's breezing through them. There is absolutely nothing hard or labor-intensive about these courses.

I mean, at this point you're trolling.

I get some people aren't happy with the *content* of Health B, but you don't have to lie about the *workload*. It's perfectly manageable.

We must have different teachers. The workload is a lot and the teacher is great but not at all impressed with some of the assignments. And, except for sex ed, bulk of it has nothing to do with health.

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Anonymous wrote:Agreed! It’s a huge waste of time. Health A should be all that is required and they need to change it up from middle school.

Too bad these busybodies lobbied the state legislator to create more health requirements. I think the same people are pushing more useless classes now. I mean they wouldn't necessarily be useless but after MCPS adds its honors for all treatment it will be.

Who was behind this lobbying? And what are they pushing now? Links?

It was the solution to COVID mental health crisis because because you know the solution to improving mental health is making kids sit in classes they hate.

Health B is causing me mental health issues. Covid was no big deall. This class is a nightmare with badly written busy work. Whoever created this curriculum at MCPS did an abysmal job. The links are outdated, and some of the assignments are inappropriate (teens deciding what birth control to use vs. talking to their doctor), etc. And some of the assignments take hours.

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Anonymous wrote:People are making this scheduling out to be a big deal. It’s not. It’s a 3-4 class with synchronous classes 3 days a week for 1.5 hours. After that your kid can determine when they schedule in the homework. If they can’t do that or have a problem with then the simple solution is don’t take the class during the summer.

Health A is mostly a repeat of MS. Health B is a little different. I champion them merging PE/Health/Financial Literacy/Conflict Resolution and Leadership development into a class with the different components each covered over a quarter.

This was my child’s experience with health a this summer. They would spend an hour, at most, after class getting the assignments done. They plan to take health b next summer. Parents here are making way to big a deal of this.

Come back and visit here then if the district has not made any changes to requirements to take that Health B class.

My rising 9th grader is taking both health classes this summer - right now he's in the middle of health B. He's breezing through them. There is absolutely nothing hard or labor-intensive about these courses.

I mean, at this point you're trolling.

I get some people aren't happy with the *content* of Health B, but you don't have to lie about the *workload*. It's perfectly manageable.

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Anonymous wrote:My rising freshman is taking Health A and B this summer. I was listening yesterday and the teacher is great. She requires cameras to be on at all times, is very clear on due dates and deadlines, and has them do little participatory exercises and quizzes in class, so they don't just sit there passively.

I was very impressed, although I have nothing to compare it to. My schooling did not include fact-filled presentation about depression, anxiety and suicide (the lesson they were doing yesterday).

I'm impressed with our teacher too but the courseload is a nightmare with 4-5, sometimes 6 small-big, ranging medium.

PP you replied to. DD hasn't found it onerous in the least - she works 30 min a day on it - just not super interesting. But maybe your child is very busy with other things?

The number of assignments due daily for my child required way more than 30 mins a day. Usually 2-3 hrs M-F.

Anonymous wrote:Agree that this was without a doubt one of the dumbest things the state has done with respect of education. The idea that so many kids are ruining their summers taking this crap just makes me mad. And so many take it during summers so they don’t give up the opportunity to actually learn something during the school year. Look, kids who want to learn! And we punish them by taking away their summer. I’m not sure who to write to campaign to get rid of this—clearly no one is happy with it. Even the teachers think it is dumb. They should allow kids to test out of it, or substitute AP Psych or Yoga.

+1

My DD who is very detail oriented, has been spending 2-4 hrs a day doing assignments from Health A, and now, Health B. It is really terrible and the cost is crazy too..especially if there are so many students interested, they should lower the cost. There are almost 60kids in DD’s zoom class.
Why can’t they just do an extra period for students who want to take extra class or elective? Then no one would bother doing so much during the summer.

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Anonymous wrote:People are making this scheduling out to be a big deal. It’s not. It’s a 3-4 class with synchronous classes 3 days a week for 1.5 hours. After that your kid can determine when they schedule in the homework. If they can’t do that or have a problem with then the simple solution is don’t take the class during the summer.

Health A is mostly a repeat of MS. Health B is a little different. I champion them merging PE/Health/Financial Literacy/Conflict Resolution and Leadership development into a class with the different components each covered over a quarter.

This was my child’s experience with health a this summer. They would spend an hour, at most, after class getting the assignments done. They plan to take health b next summer. Parents here are making way to big a deal of this.

Come back and visit here then if the district has not made any changes to requirements to take that Health B class.

Anonymous wrote:People are making this scheduling out to be a big deal. It’s not. It’s a 3-4 class with synchronous classes 3 days a week for 1.5 hours. After that your kid can determine when they schedule in the homework. If they can’t do that or have a problem with then the simple solution is don’t take the class during the summer.

Health A is mostly a repeat of MS. Health B is a little different. I champion them merging PE/Health/Financial Literacy/Conflict Resolution and Leadership development into a class with the different components each covered over a quarter.

This was my child’s experience with health a this summer. They would spend an hour, at most, after class getting the assignments done. They plan to take health b next summer. Parents here are making way to big a deal of this.

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Anonymous wrote:It is around 90 assignments in 3 weeks. Some of them more onerous than others

My kid just counted their assignments for Health B. There are 42 total.

Health A was similar.

You're full of it, PP.

I haven't counted, but my kid is doing closer to 90 than 42. Not difficult, but she works hours and hours each day. Of course, she's the kind of kid who has to do everything 'well.' I've been trying to get her to work more efficiently (which is, frankly, slacking off a bit when you have close to 100%) but she won't have anything of it.

Unfortunately it sounds as if your daughter has low processing speed (quite distinct from IQ, by the way). One of my children has inattentive ADHD/ASD and low processing speed. When he was in school, everything took ages. It was excruciatingly painful. He had a 504 and extended time, but that was a double-edged sword because he sometimes accumulated too many delayed assignments at the end of the quarter, when they needed to be handed in. He too couldn't triage - everything had to be perfect and done at the same slow pace. It's part of the inattentive ADHD/autistic profile that these kids cannot prioritize or determine what can be botched and what needs to be done thoroughly. He's doing better in college because he doesn't take too many classes at once.

I'm not diagnosing your daughter from afar. But take it as a red flag and get her evaluated, and request school accommodations, if you think it will make her more successful in high school. Also, if there really is ADHD, medication significantly helps with focus, and helps a little with processing speed.

(Also please don't double down on the 90. Some of us have seen the assignments and know you multiplied by 2).

Students should get the option to choose in HS if they want a second semester of PE or health. Or in that slot instead add another Art, Music, financial literacy, tech, etc.

Back in the day in HS, PE was required all four years.

People are making this scheduling out to be a big deal. It’s not. It’s a 3-4 class with synchronous classes 3 days a week for 1.5 hours. After that your kid can determine when they schedule in the homework. If they can’t do that or have a problem with then the simple solution is don’t take the class during the summer.

Health A is mostly a repeat of MS. Health B is a little different. I champion them merging PE/Health/Financial Literacy/Conflict Resolution and Leadership development into a class with the different components each covered over a quarter.

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Anonymous wrote:It is around 90 assignments in 3 weeks. Some of them more onerous than others

My kid just counted their assignments for Health B. There are 42 total.

Health A was similar.

You're full of it, PP.

I haven't counted, but my kid is doing closer to 90 than 42. Not difficult, but she works hours and hours each day. Of course, she's the kind of kid who has to do everything 'well.' I've been trying to get her to work more efficiently (which is, frankly, slacking off a bit when you have close to 100%) but she won't have anything of it.

Anonymous wrote:It is around 90 assignments in 3 weeks. Some of them more onerous than others

My kid just counted their assignments for Health B. There are 42 total.

Health A was similar.

You're full of it, PP.

It is around 90 assignments in 3 weeks. Some of them more onerous than others

No it's not. My kid is in Health B right now with 4 more synchronous lessons to go. He's done 26 assignments and grade is a 99. It is busy work but not difficult or even that time consuming.

Agree with a PP complaints about the schedule. I had to blow up my kid's summer schedule to make summer school work. Frustrating.

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Anonymous wrote:Agreed! It’s a huge waste of time. Health A should be all that is required and they need to change it up from middle school.

Too bad these busybodies lobbied the state legislator to create more health requirements. I think the same people are pushing more useless classes now. I mean they wouldn't necessarily be useless but after MCPS adds its honors for all treatment it will be.

Who was behind this lobbying? And what are they pushing now? Links?

It was the solution to COVID mental health crisis because because you know the solution to improving mental health is making kids sit in classes they hate.