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High School Updates
The Board meeting this Wednesday has a couple of items of interest for high school parents. I am honestly shocked that these changes were not widely distributed and discussed at high schools before any kind of change.The first is Amendment to Board Policy No. 2024, Online Learning; Repeal of Board Policy No. C16.00, Acceptance of Correspondence or College Courses for High School Credit.
Per reader Yikes' comment from the Friday Open Thread:
Significant procedural changes are being proposed for school approval of on-line courses (or "out-of-district" courses, as SPS is calling them). See this week's board agenda (vote on Wed).
Board Policy C16.00, "Acceptance of Correspondence or College Courses for High School Credit," would be repealed and the reworked policy would be put into a revised Superintendent Policy 2024SP.
This takes it out of Board oversight, as SP's can be changed without Board approval (or public comment). Intentionally or unintentionally, the revised policy will severely restrict options for students wanting to access advanced coursework outside of SPS.Another commenter, Concerned Parent said this:
From a decision tree in the newly proposed SP:
• Courses must be taught by one of the following:
o OSPI approved online course provider;
o Accredited community college, technical college, or university in Washington State;
o Approved private school in Washington State. All private schools in Washington must be approved in order to operate, so any private school where a student might take a course is approved;
o High school or online school in a school district in Washington State.
• If the course is provided by one of the above institutions, proceed to the next question. If not, deny the request.
According to current Policy C16.00, institutions include:
- Community colleges, technical colleges, four-year colleges and universities (either private or public), and approved private schools high schools in Washington state;
The new policy would eliminate courses taken through out-of-state colleges and universities, unless on the list of approved OSPI providers (it's a pretty short list, and only BYU seems to be listed).
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Yikes, thanks for the heads up that the Board will be voting on this online course policy this week. I have just sent an email asking the Board to amend the policy to allow high school students to take online foreign language classes from non-OSPI approved providers who might be out of state.Lotsa Questions had these queries:
I have a current senior and an incoming freshman. I'm well aware that some of our high schools have limited foreign language choices and teacher shortages. My older kid wasn't interested in any of the languages offered at his school and took an online Hebrew class instead offered by a college in Philadelphia and designed specifically for high school students.
He wasn't subject to the new high school graduation requirement of two years of foreign language study, but he applied to colleges that required 2 or 3 years of foreign language in high school. So far, every school he has applied to has accepted his transcript from the online course. No problem.
My daughter wants to do the same thing,but under this new decision tree, she won't be able to. I don't understand why, when we know we have scarce resources for foreign language study in our schools, we would restrict students' access to online courses to meet this new graduation requirement. If you agree with me, please write to the Board. I'm also going to try to sign up to testify about this.
What seems missing from the work group analysis of online coursework - actual analysis.
- What classes are being taken online, by whom, and for what reasons? For credit recovery? To access more advanced courses? To access classes SPS simply doesn't offer (like Hebrew)?
- Where is the data to suggest online coursework in MS may leave some students unprepared for HS courses?
- Haven't some students been forced to use online providers (at WMS and RESMS)? And why shouldn't MS students be able to receive HS credit for a HS level course?
- With the new 24 credit requirement, you'd think SPS would be looking for ways to increase pathways for students to get those credits.
- Shouldn't the decision tree work toward flexibility for students? The limitations put in place because of supposed "shopping around" and GPA boosting is just odd.
- Are they talking about academic scholarships, or sports scholarships?
I would also urge parents to contact their legislators about Core 24. From reader Stuart (from Highline SD):
- The bills in Olympia that would address Core 24 would modify the waiver language so kids could get 2 credits waived with ‘individual’ circumstances, not ‘unique’ circumstances. Can you imagine counselors having to work this out for the hundreds of 9th grade students who are not on track?
- Sequencing - Math teacher: “I will not have a guarantee of teaching classes in sequence to the same kids. Every 12 weeks, I could have a different group on a different level. So, Alg 1A in the fall, Geometry 1A in the winter, Alg 2A in the spring could happen.”
- IB HL English will be crammed from two full years into four trimesters.
- Teacher at Raisbeck Aviation HS stated “ we are going to have 12 week classes. We will reduce the content we cover. We won’t try to jam 18 weeks of content into 12 weeks. We will have 12 weeks in 12 weeks. We didn’t think going against this was worth it because we’d just get some new administrator and we like the one we have. We are trying to make the best of it and completely redo our curriculum. We do hope to have full year AP classes.”
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