CAP offers easy credit recovery

Published: March 3, 2010

This year FHN has adopted a new system for credit recovery, called the CAP or Credit Assistance Program. However, In the years past FHN has worked with ACE, an alternative school for students to remake credit. Now the same help is offered at FHN through CAP. Classes are held every Tuesday and Thursday from 2:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the library computer lab.

“The program allows students to recover credit before graduation outside of their normal classes,” guidance department chairperson Tom Daugherty said.

This program is designed for primarily seniors, but in some cases, juniors and sophomores may attend the program also. In the eight-week session, a student can complete one course. The first session started Jan. 12 and ends March 11, the second session starts March 23 and will end May 20 in time for graduation.

“The class goes fast and it’s very easy to complete the lessons,” senior Brendan Kennedy said. “We all can work at our own pace.”

CAP is a last resort for most of the students in contrast to the alternative school Union. Like Union, CAP uses the exact same computer program for their courses but CAP is done in a student’s spare time, after school. Each student takes a pretest to begin each lesson and if they get a 80 percent or higher they move on to the next lesson; if they fail the pretest, they have to go through a study session where they take notes and analyze information to prepare them for the pretest that was taken once before.

For the seniors who are lacking credit, this course is the key to walking beside their class at graduation and being able to receive their diploma on time.

“It’s going to be great,” dean of students Thomas Potteiger said. “We had 29 in the first session and 30 for the next so the classes are completely full.”

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