D can take just the first semester of Latin 2 but that doesn’t change the problem because she still has to do it in 17 days. She can’t stretch it over both sessions. Our district’s summer school definitely covers a lot of students who are taking a class for grade remediation, especially among the math classes. Another effect of the extremely compressed schedule is that it makes it very difficult for anyone to take two summer classes simultaneously, unless the student is a highly organized, motivated person.
Based on our experience last summer, I get the impression that the district gets the online curriculum from an outside provider. I feel that a lot of the pressure could be alleviated if the student could see the curriculum and assignments ahead of time and get a head start. There are 18 days, for example, between the end of the regular school year and the start of the online summer session. But I’m guessing that the contract with the outside provider doesn’t permit access until the official start date?
One positive is that the cost per semester is only $185. I agree that a CC class would be another option, but still find it frustrating that the district operates it’s summer school this way. I can understand the schedule for the traditional summer school, where they open and staff one of the high schools during that same time interval. But the way they operate the online summer school seems unnecessarily rigid.