Avoiding unweighted electives to keep the GPA up

Kelowna
Tue, 05 May 2009 11:04:53 +0000

LOL about those PE and Art classes online. But what do I know, oldest kid is only beginning HS. But you had me thinking and I checked - in my state PE has to be taken either at the HS or as an outside club sport for homeschoolers. That is why GC was stressing this to the incoming freshman - take PE your first year because you do not want to be taking this as a senior with 9th graders!
State requires 1.5 credits in PE, the last 0.5 can be taken as Fitness for Life or participation in a sport.
I was shocked when I checked that indeed you can take Fine Art online!
GC was frank with me when she said that top students take Computers, Financial Literacy etc online, but she never mentioned Fine Arts. I wonder how an online class would be viewed by the UC system. Any thoughs? I actually do not even think that DS would be interested in taking Fine Arts online, he would probably love to do theater or film arts at the school. It will have to wait though. For freshman electives he chose debate and doubling up on science (will take H Biology and H Physics).
Again, this whole idea of playing the numbers makes me cringe. He might be already in the losing spot when it comes to numbers, as most likely he will have to take at least 2 years of math outside of school, at the local U. Oh well…