As mentioned previously, LASA does not have summer homework. However, we do want to share some information about what many LASA students end up doing during one of the summers in their high school career, as it may alleviate future stress for your family.
Health is a semester-long credit-course that is required by the AISD to graduate. Some students completed this credit during middle school. If a student has not, then at LASA, students take it through Garza On-line. (Garza on-line is a self-paced program run out of Garza High School.)
Most LASA students take Garza on-line health during the summer between 9th and 10th grade. Unfortunately, some students wait until senior year to complete this graduation requirement. If students wait until Senior year, they might have to use their "off-period" to do so until they complete the course (thus making the off-period not really an off-period). Seniors that do not complete this are in jeopardy of not graduating even if they are already accepted to college. Please know that senior year is full of many things that take an enormous amount of time (e.g. college applications, AP prep, scholarship applications, college visits, and of course, all of the senior year "fun" stuff, not to mention senioritis kicks in!).
This online, self-paced Health course is straightforward and about 14 hours of actual work. Of course, every student is different in how they tackle a self-paced course. This course can be taken from anywhere that the student has a good internet connection and computer.
So, why are we telling you all this?
Students currently in 8th grade at an AISD middle school can ask their middle school counselor to sign the student up for Health and complete the course this summer. Remember 8th grade students are not LASA students until the weekend before school starts in 9th grade, so, sorry, LASA cannot sign anyone up.
If you are not an AISD student (private, outside of AISD, home school, etc), you will need to wait until the summer between 9th and 10th grade.
As always, we hope this information is seen as something helpful and not intended to stress anyone out.