DD’18 is taking 2 online courses, Economics and US Government, this summer during the same 5 week period. These 2, 1 semester long, classes are required for graduation. DD decided to take them online so that she could take an elective and an AP class that are only offered during the school year. These classes are work at your own pace and then a set day for the final. It is taking her, if she stays on her current pace, about 2 weeks per class.
This is our 1st experience with online classes…I can see why our school does not count online classes in the GPA, so far classes have not been very challenging. I doubt she is really learning anything as it seems at this point it is a game to her to see how fast she can get through a unit and how high of a grade she can earn on the quizes and unit test, which so far have been in the 90 -100 range, except for one quize she got a 70 on because…“I really had to use the bathroom, but we only have a few minutes for the quiz and I wasn’t really paying attention”. This has definately simply been a way for her to tic the box that the classes are done for graduation. Normally I would have encouraged her to take the AP Econ and AP Gov classes during the schoolmyear (as her sister did). Frankly I am regretting letting her take these classes online. It has been eye opening, if this is how online works for home schooling it scares me as to the quality of education the kids are getting.