Electives?

[Peggy in Ks]

How many electives to you have your high school student do per year?
Thanks
Peggy

[Sharon in MD]

Caution...somewhat whiney content.

Our oversight allows you to take up to 8 credits per year, with a credit being a standard high school course or 120 hours of logged time for something less traditional.

Anything over that is considered extra curricular.

They recommend that college bound students complete:
4 English
3 Social studies (one must be US)
3 Math (Al I, II and Geometry minimum)
3 Science (two with lab)
2 Foreign Lang
1 Fine Arts
1 Phys Ed
3 electives minimum

total minimum 21 credits, total maximum 32.....which leaves you with lots of room to play around or hang yourself ;) as the case may be.
When our ds graduates he will have just about 32.

I think the number of electives they take every school year really depends on their personal make-up and yours. We tend to be a real run around, busy family as so we tend to take on too much. It seems to be a bad habit around here. It also depends on how you are structuring your high school plan. Are you going more traditional for the courses or more of the great books route, or something else?

We've gone more traditional. So for us that has meant Eng, Math, Science, Bible (1/2 cr) and social studies as core classes every year. Then for the last two years we've had Spanish in there as well. So that is 5.5 credits right there. I wouldn't recommend more that two other classes on top of that. I figure at least 1 hour per day per credit for us, so you can see that for us that means at least 8 hours a day.....which often stretches to worse.

I sat down the other day to try to figure out why we are all going crazy here and we realized that with his extracurricular stuff we are doing the equivalent to 10 credits this year.... :banghead: (don't you love the new smilies?)
So...long way to say....add it up and make sure you don't over do it.
There is such a thing as too much of a good thing.