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Program-of-studies change: district alters JROTC credit structure so students don’t lose elective credit
Summary
After counselors flagged enrollment implications from House Bill 98 implementation, the division proposed counting JROTC 1 as PE 9 and PE 10 standards delivery to avoid requiring three CTE credits and to preserve elective flexibility for students.
York County School Division staff told the School Board on May 12 they will revise the Program of Studies to change how Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) courses count toward graduation requirements so students are not required to earn an extra credit compared with non‑JROTC peers.
Doctor Cagle and school counselors reported that implementation of House Bill 98 — allowing JROTC to satisfy physical-education graduation requirements — created an unintended inequity when counselors worked through student schedules. Under the division’s January approach, JROTC 1 would have fulfilled PE 9 and JROTC 2 would have fulfilled PE 10, but counselors said students who used JROTC to meet PE requirements would also have been required to take two semester health courses (health 9 and health 10), effectively earning three credits where non‑JROTC students needed two.
Cagle said counselors raised practical problems: counting JROTC 1 and 2 as PE reduced students’ elective flexibility and could prevent JROTC students from meeting the state’s “CTE finisher” definition (which requires sequential CTE coursework) because JROTC courses had been counted differently for CTE reporting. To address those concerns staff proposed counting JROTC 1 as satisfying both PE 9 and PE 10 standards (with health delivered separately, including by combining standards with driver’s-education content as needed) so that JROTC students would still complete the same number of credits as non-JROTC peers and preserve elective sequencing.
Why it matters: the change is intended to preserve equity in graduation-credit requirements and keep JROTC students able to pursue other CTE pathway courses without losing sequential electives. Cagle said the redline of the Program of Studies will be posted to BoardDocs and the change will be presented on the consent agenda at the regular meeting next week.
Ending: staff said the revised language will appear as a redline on BoardDocs and will be brought to the consent agenda for approval at the next regular meeting.
