Scholl at summer holiday/vacation?

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1. Depends on the school, some go in summer some are allowed to take an extra class to repeat semesters in an alternate classroom.

2. Many schools (typically middle schools and above) offer summer session classes – some are advanced classes for students that want to get ahead, and some are remedial classes for students that didn’t pass the subject during the previous academic session.

   They usually aren’t mandatory in the sense that you (or your parents) get arrested if you don’t go, you’ll just be held back and prevented from graduating until you complete those classes.

3. It’s really depending on the situation but most of the times, yes. If you fail a class and are going to get held back, many schools allow you to take the class during summer to make it up. That said, if you fail too many subjects and it’s impossible to graduate that year, it is just best to repeat the year.

   It does need repeating that summer school is only one of many options to make up for failing a subject. Make-ups, Online classes and many more are available.

4. Summer School is a thing. It is an opportunity to take the class a second time and not be held back a year of schooling. It is not mandatory, but most parents consider it better than the kid repeating an entire grade again so if the option is presented they tend to take it.

   It also exists in College/University but there it is typically a student trying to get ahead and graduate early.

5. Summer school exists. But it’s not only for those who are flunking their classes. I went and took some mandatory classes during the summer so I didn’t have to take them during the school year. It was so much easier to knock them out in short while. Instead of having them for half the school year

   Edit: I should clarify that the classes I took in the summer were mandatory to take at some point. Not that I had to go to summer school . I just wanted to get them out of the way

6. This is much more common in college (university), in my experience. I took some summer and intercession (which are usually during a shorter holiday break) courses when I was changing majors to catch myself up. I didn’t fail anything, I was just trying to shorten the length of time I was going to be in school.

7. To add to what everyone else is saying, usually it’s only if you’ve flunked one, *maybe* two classes. Anything more than that, in most schools, your parents will have a meeting with a guidance counselor about what’s actually going on.

8. Yes, summer school is a thing where kids who failed a class or want to make up a class can take that class over the summer so they aren’t left behind in that class for the following year. Not all schools offer this and some may have the child go to a different school to complete those classes.

9. It’s not *just* for people who failed a class. I took two summer classes in high school: One for World Geography, because they were offering it free of charge; and one for English, because then I could arrange the rest of my schedule to graduate early.

10. In elementary we could get help for core subjects (might be mandatory? Not sure) and fun things.

    I need math, reading, photography, gymnastics, computers, sports thing, circus ( skipped my aunt and uncles wearing to see a dude shot out of a conon) arts and crafts.

    It wasn’t all summer. Just a week or two. We lived in the country and it was nice to see kids again.

11. Yes. Also, sometimes, Advanced Placement students would take courses in the summer to get a jump on the fall. At least where I lived.

    (I had one really bad semester in a topic back in HS, and had the option of retaking it in the summer or graduating later. So it was ‘mandatory’ in the one-choice-is-no-choice kind of way.)

12. Some schools had that. My school didn’t have actual summer classes, if you failed a required class they’d give you a packet of work you’d have to do at home, and you needed to do that and hand it in before the first day of school. If you got a C or above on the combined score of all the work you’d be able to pass the class. You could only do 3 of them during your entire high school career, or you’d be held back.

    I only know all this because my brother had to do those packets 3 times.

13. The state sector, aka public schools, in the US, have classes over the summer. These are remedial for, as you observed, people who failed a given subject, or advanced, for those whose guardians want them to get a head start.