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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2014 13:27:48 GMT -5
How many credits do high schoolers take a year?
I know now how many they have to have, but I'm assuming most take more...
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Post by Sam_2.0 on Jun 26, 2014 13:40:37 GMT -5
Each state is different. I believe KS has less than MO, because when we moved my Jr year I was able to take 2 extra classes and graduate as a Jr. Would have sucked to go the other way!
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How many credits do high schoolers take a year? I know now how many they have to have, but I'm assuming most take more... mine take 8 credits a year. each class each semester is 0.5 credit. 8 classes per semester.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2014 13:46:55 GMT -5
Ok. Good. Required is only like 24, so I was thinking 8 seemed too high, as that is akin to graduating in 3, but it sounds like it's no problem.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2014 13:55:33 GMT -5
It must be different everywhere. Our school you need to have 54 to graduate and take 14 a year.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2014 13:57:53 GMT -5
14 a year? Do you have many 1.5 credit classes?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2014 14:02:02 GMT -5
It looks like everything is one credit.
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I don't understand, do they take 2-3 English classes a year, for example?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2014 14:05:14 GMT -5
Yes, two English classes. One each semester. Looking through the catalog everything is one credit, but there is say a 9th grade English I and a 9th grade English II.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2014 14:11:07 GMT -5
Ok, so basically they just double everything. Here a whole year is one credit, so it would be like 27 instead of 54.
I was was told the guideline for PA is 120 hr + = 1 credit. 60-80 = 1/2 credit. The only thing my local district has at 1.5 are their lab sciences.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2014 14:26:18 GMT -5
Back in the day, our HS was 17 credits to graduate.. I think every full year class was 1 credit.
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it all depends on the state and what their requirements are. In MD you also have to pass proficiency tests in addition to having the right number of credits. so for graduation you need 4 credits of english (can only be earned 9-12 grade, I believe, so no graduating early) 4 credits of math to include alg 1 and geometry, 1 PE credit, 0.5 health credits, and so on and so on.
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Well, the district or state won't actually issue a diploma, so I don't have to have them pass competency tests, but I do need a transcript and don't want it to look too 'weird'...
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Oped, even though the state or district won't be issuing a diploma, there should be a curriculum posted online somewhere. Alabama requires 24 credits. We require 4x4 (4 years each) of the 4 core subjects, .5 health, 1 credit for p.e. (band qualifies), 1 credit for "career preparedness" (which I think is a computing course), and 1 credit for foreign languages/fine arts/etc. Then there are 2.5 credits of electives.
I'd check your state's requirements. I just googled "Alabama graduation credits requirement" to come up with our state's. You want the transcript to be comparable.
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Post by Mardi Gras Audrey on Jun 26, 2014 16:43:43 GMT -5
In our district (CA), we had to have 225 credits to graduate (one semester class= 5 credits). So, if you convert to what other areas are using, it sound like it would be 22.5 credits. You would take 6 classes (30 credits) per semester so you would get 240 (24) over the course of 4 years (without summer school, zero period, extra credis, etc)
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Post by justme on Jun 26, 2014 16:44:04 GMT -5
How many they take and what they need to graduate are two different things.
My school was 7 classes per year - so you could get a total of 28 credits. But I think to graduate you only needed 2 math credits, 4 English, less than 4 for science and social studies (I think?), 1 PE, and some other stuff I forgot. All I know is I only needed an English and social studies credit to graduate my senior year, and could have graduated earlier if I doubled up my junior year and didn't take as many electives (though I also came into HS with 3 credits so that helped).
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I looked up the school district I graduated from and the minimum was 23 credits to graduate. The course requirement schedule was on the high school web site as well; I'd just check your local high school web sites. We were required 4 English, 4 social studies (world cultures, american history, us government, etc), 3 science, 3 math (both science and math had minimum required classes, can take additional courses), 4 phys ed, and then additional stuff like health, and whatever electives you wanted.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 26, 2014 17:15:14 GMT -5
Yes, our minimum is 24. But, kind of like a homeschool transcript looks hinky if its all As, I didn't want to list 8-9 credits per year and then have someone say... Oh homeschooler exaggerating here... Ie. I want to give credit for what is completed/accomplished, but I don't want my transcript to have any 'cues' which might inadvertently get it flagged.
I figured people generally take more than the minimum, just wanted to make sure, and it seems many do.
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What are the home schooling electives in? I could totally see a "computer applications" elective because we offer that. Or a mythology course. Definitely foreign languages if that's possible (can you incorporate your state's online program?), etc.
Our kids go to school for 7 periods a day. So 24 is the minimum and technically 28 is the maximum. But ours can go to summer school for a few courses (health, driver's ed, government, and economics) to get ahead if they want more electives. They also have a zero period that means they could (but no one does unless they've failed something) take 32-34 credits (adding in the summer school courses).
I think meaningful electives are the key. A lot of colleges and universities recomputed the GPA to throw out the weighting that schools do for advanced courses and sometimes only consider core courses, anyway. That would be the 4 core plus usually a foreign language.
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Some I'm giving on a year basis, some combining fraction credits over 4 years (based on apx hours). They take Music lessons, art lessons, he did c # last year, personal finance, career development, family/consumer sciences, drivers Ed... I'm considering critical thinking.
But some of that might fall by the wayside if he takes more classes as we go along.
What made me think of it is that this class he's finishing is 70+ hours, so I can count that as .5 credit in Game Development...
They do Rosetta Stone for languages... I counted Latin II as a full class, they did both I and II at some point, but I'm not sure I will/should count this year's as a full credit, he chose Japanese this year...
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Some I'm giving on a year basis, some combining quarter credits over 4 years (based on apx hours). They take Music lessons, art lessons, he did c # last year, personal finance, career development, family/consumer sciences, drivers Ed... I'm considering critical thinking. But some of that might fall by the wayside if he takes more classes as we go along. What made me think of it is that this class he's finishing is 70+ hours, so I can count that as .5 credit in Game Development... They do Rosetta Stone for languages... I counted Latin II as a full class, they did both I and II at some point, but I'm not sure I will/should count this year's as a full credit, he chose Japanese this year... As someone who was subjected to Latin for a few years in HS I'm sorry to say I'll have to report you for child abuse. (only kinda kidding, man was that a love/hate class)
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I looove Latin! But mostly because my teacher was great I guess. its just such a great vocabulary foundation. I did tell them after Latin II they could pick whatever they want though
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Post by The Captain on Jun 26, 2014 19:22:10 GMT -5
I always think about going back to it, but honestly suck at memorization and declension (sp?) and tense was so important, I couldn't keep that and the root words straight.
Yes, I will grudgingly acknowledge that knowledge of the root words still serve me to this day.
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Post by The Captain on Jun 26, 2014 19:28:25 GMT -5
So oped, question I'm curious about... DH and I will never home-school DD because so far she's had (mostly) excellent teachers and we hope that trend continues. They do a much better job then we could. I know I've read somewhere that kids who are home schooled have higher college graduation rates, better grades etc. But I've always wondered when it comes to college admissions, how do the colleges compare home schooled kids to those with traditional transcripts?
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Well, from what I've read, many schools are becoming familiar with how to review homeschooled kids, their portfolios, etc. Obviously they can take the same tests like SAT. Im just starting this process, the past year was my sons first official high school year.
One thing about homeschool kids is many who are going to college, have credits of some sort before they apply. This class will be son's first two I hope. I'm waiting to see how this goes before scheduling anything next spring. I've said I've been surprised so far at how easy the process of dual enrollment has been... We'll see as we go if it remains that way.
I could benefit from being in PA somewhat. I went to a homeschooling high school conference a few years ago, and the keynote speaker went on and on about the rigorous things you had to do to get into college (AP, CLEP, etc) ... But to a one, all of the college recruiters we talked to after said she was nuts and it wasn't necessary. However, PA is considered a red state to homeschool in. We have stricter guidelines and in some ways I think that actually helps.
The university son is taking this class at works a lot with homeschoolers. Homeschoolers always get a fair percentage of their full ride offers each year.
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Post by 973beachbum on Jun 26, 2014 20:00:45 GMT -5
Ok, so basically they just double everything. Here a whole year is one credit, so it would be like 27 instead of 54. I was was told the guideline for PA is 120 hr + = 1 credit. 60-80 = 1/2 credit. The only thing my local district has at 1.5 are their lab sciences. In NJ they are all 5. You can take some classes that run half a year, AKA a semester, that are 2.5 but those are only weird electives not regular ones. I don't remember how many you need to graduate but the min credits a year is 35. So no 8 classes a year is not pushing it IMO.
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Post by teen persuasion on Jun 26, 2014 20:17:46 GMT -5
Oped, even though the state or district won't be issuing a diploma, there should be a curriculum posted online somewhere. Alabama requires 24 credits. We require 4x4 (4 years each) of the 4 core subjects, .5 health, 1 credit for p.e. (band qualifies), 1 credit for "career preparedness" (which I think is a computing course), and 1 credit for foreign languages/fine arts/etc. Then there are 2.5 credits of electives.
I'd check your state's requirements. I just googled "Alabama graduation credits requirement" to come up with our state's. You want the transcript to be comparable. It really does differ by state, I guess! Our school district requires 22 credits to graduate, but they also require a minimum of 5 per year, so the kids can't slide thru senior year taking less after completing all the minimum requirements for the earlier years: 3 years foreign language, 3 years math, 3 years science, 1 year health, 1 year music. English, history, and PE are mandatory 4 years, so no graduating early. There are 9 periods per day, so a "normal" schedule is one lunch, one study hall, and 5.5 credits: English, history, math, science+every other day lab, every other day PE, music. Our district really loves its music program, so many kids do at least one music per year plus one year of music theory to be eligible for music honors. Some have gotten double or triple MH, which requires 4 years credit each in two/three ensembles. Lots of the kids also take college courses: calc, 4 and 5 year Spanish, IB science, etc. DS4 overloaded his schedule this year (no study hall, no lunch, stacked lab and PE in one period) to fit in band, orchestra and theory. He wants to do it again next year to squeeze in a tech class he's interested in, and he needs to take the health he put off (against his advisor's wishes). The advisor is fighting him on the tech class - ha hasn't taken the pre-req, but the teacher is ok with it. DD3 got caught by the 5 credits every year rule, despite taking 4 years of chorus, 5 years of Spanish, and math thru Calc I, so she had to find a half year college level course to pick up in January of her senior year; there are almost no half year HS courses she could jump into mid year and she had dropped CalcII which was a 2 credit course. She ended up with Public Speaking.
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We have no number of credits per year and have early release for seniors. They still have to do the 4x4, but lots leave at 11:30. It saves the district money.
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Our district does NOT pay for the college courses, CC or university, at the HS or at the college. We have paid the tuition fees.
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In PA we have had diploma programs for homeschoolers... One if the only states that has. Recent legislature has been proposed that would allow a parent diploma to sufice, but I'm not sure how that is set up/ going? I have to research. Still don't see how it would work for federal financial aid? Or military? State doesn't control those things...
Anyway, at 30 college credits you get what is the equivalent of having a HS diploma, that's the route I think we'll take, as I said we'll see as we go, but I don't think not having a diploma is going to be an issue...
I am paying for classes that I think if as 'high school credit' ... If they might transfer I'll think about the using 528, but dual credits I've looked at are cheaper than regular credits.
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