Ground school and high school

[n57flyguy]

I am planning to take a ground school course *soon* (one has started and they only do two or three a year at my FBO, so I might be able to jump in, the instructor tells me they havnt gone over too much). A friend of mine recommended that I see if I could recieve creditation for the course in high school. Seems like a good idea. UNfourtunitley, my guidence consulors don't feel that way. I went to their office twice and I got the yeah were on that but you could tell that they wern't really that entuiastic about looking into or doing it period. The course is over about 36 hours, it would be after school from 6-9PM once a week, an is about $450. I really want to take the course for my benifit anyway, but would really like to get creditation for it. I have given my conselor my instructors number, but I really dont think see is going to call. Is it worth pursuing to see if I can reciveve creditation? What should I do to seek to it that my consoler does what is nessicary to allow me to recieve accredation? because she doesn't seem that excited about it.

And another thing. Last year I talked to a consoler and she was excited that I wanted to be a pilot. Well, now the school has changed my consoler from last year, who I know would want to help me. I think next stop is to the pricipal involved, my parents, and instructor. Just upsets me when they want to help students but don't want to do more than what they do.

[DE727UPS]

I was able to get "independent study" credits for working towards my PPL, IFR, an Commercial writtens. A friendly Geography teacher was an ex-Nam Huey pilot and flew Cessnas. I was able to talk him into "sponsering" my independent study.

Maybe you could find a teacher who's a pilot to back you up? I'd go over the counselors head if you think it might work.

[jawright]

See if you can get a math, science or physics teacher to help your cause. Show them the material you are learning and let them see that it is a practical application of the curriculum.

Every state has curriculum standards/benchmarks for every subject in every grade level. These standards dictate what students should know by the end of which grade or class (i.e. "every 11th grade physics student should know (instert physics stuff here) by the end of their physics class") . You can look up your state's curriculum benchmarks and see how the book knowledge needed for aviation matches up with the state standards. It's a really strong argument if you go in saying, "See, this material in Chapter XX of the Jeppesen book aligns with state benchmark XXXX, and Ch. YY is the same material that is in state standard YYYY..."

Good luck.

[turbojet28]

I went to a private high school and they pretty much cared a rat's butt about my extra curricular activities that weren't directly associated with the school - kinda disapponting considering I learned so many things from getting my PPL while I was a junior in HS that not somewhat applied, but directly applied to some of my classes in senior year. In specific, I had a higher level of understanding of Bernoulli's theorum, kinetic motion and free body diagrams, electricity, and latent heat PRIOR to taking my senior high school physics class than most of my classmates did after taking the class. It's too bad my flying work didn't "count" for anything, but it definately helped me completely smoke the rest of the class as far as grades were concerned. Not sure if the situation would be any different at a public school...

[frog_flyer]

n57, put off your ground school for a while and double up on english courses.

[bdhill1979]

Are we talking about high school or college credit for this? If you were able to get college credit out of it that would be well worth the effort, but seeing as how the minute you graduate, high school credits count for nothing when heading to college. If this is HS credit, I wouldnt waste the effort.

[launchpad]

Originally Posted by bdhill1979

Are we talking about high school or college credit for this? If you were able to get college credit out of it that would be well worth the effort, but seeing as how the minute you graduate, high school credits count for nothing when heading to college. If this is HS credit, I wouldnt waste the effort.

Ya, but having a lazy senior year without ditching is a pretty good deal.

If you haven't talked to your parents yet, see if they have some ideas. They're probably in a better position to get the process started. Have them go with you to talk to the counselor or maybe a teacher or two.

If it doesn't work out, oh well....at least you're able to take the groundschool and learn something vs. memorizing the gleim......

[slushie]

Screw it...take a college course. HS credits/GPA mean pretty much nothing once you've finished a semester of college.
Community College of Southern Nevada has an aviation degree (which I've been trying to finish for years). 3 credits (just like this ground school) but it would only cost $150. Same with instrument, commercial, and the incidental courses like Nav, WX, CRM, and Air Transportation(history).They have a program to let HS kids take classes too.

Look around because $450 is a CRAP LOAD of money for ground school. You could take private, instrument and commercial ground schools for that much

Also, take it at a college level and you could possibly get financial aid.

[slushie]

I dont know where in PA you are, but here's a few I found really quick on google:

http://www.pct.edu/catalog/majors/ad.shtml

http://ccbcavi.tripod.com/propilot.htm

http://www.bucks.edu/transfer/mercer.htm

http://www.ccac.edu/default.aspx?id=137388

many more probably.

one place had an "Aviation Customer Service" degree......
I want THAT on my resume! lol

[n57flyguy]

Thanks guys, I'll get back to you, my wirless is garbage.

FF, I hate English.