<p>I find it odd tha at my school, it seems as though some regular classes can get away with less people than AP classes. It's sad, becasue 2 oAP classes at my school were cancelled(in which two very good teachers teach them(Bio and Calc)), and yet some regular garbage classes are up like Cooking, and Health, and Career management. It seems as though most of the kids don't seem to care about education. I feel as though AP classes teach a whole lot better than regular ones where you're stuck with kids who don't care, especially where yuou notice the huge difference between Honors and regular. Now we only have two AP classes in our school...</p>
<p>Post here if you have a similar situation in which AP classses are dropped.</p>
<p>lol, I probably sound like I'm whining, but I'm not.</p>
<p>I’m the only person taking AP French next year, it just sucks because I’ll be in a class with French III students, (juniors, ew), but I’d prefer that to not taking it.</p>
<p>BTW, maybe you can work something out with your teachers. This one guy in my school wants to take AP Stats but we don’t have that course, however my AP Bio teacher is qualified to teach it so I think they’re going to try and work something out.</p>
<p>Online classes(to me) cannot replace studying and understanding the material with your teacher. It also seems you’re graded more on doing the assignment than the quality of your assignment on these online courses. But of course, these are just my beliefs.</p>
<p>Even if I wanted to, I don’t think I can really switch out anything ffor an online course. And I cannot drive just yet, otherwise I’d be doing the whole thing we have in Onslow in which we go to different schoolst o take classes(but i think we need our own transportation).</p>
<p>aigiqinf is right. If you’re left to your own devices and don’t have many constraints, online classes work really well. If there are a whole bunch of deadlines you come to resent the class and it sucks.</p>
<p>Online classes tell us a lot about face-to-face classes. When you look at your assignments and realize that the information covered on a one-page assignment is more than a teacher gets through in an entire class period…</p>
<p>I guess my example would be English III. I have a really tough English teacher. You do the studying by yourself and you’re expected to write quality papers. My teacher will give you 70’s in a heartbeat if you didn’t put your best effort into the class. Students who made 97’s in previous “honors classes” are sitting there with 80’s confused about what’s going on. </p>
<p>I have a friend who has a laid-back English III teacher who gives a 100 for completion as he’s told me. I’ve worked my butt off every day this summer. I have a 99 and have learned more than in any other English class I’ve taken, my friend with an 83 in the easier class, not so much. It comes down to what the teacher’s like and how much work you put in.</p>
<p>I guess it has something to do with learning styles. For me, I’d prefer to be in the same room with my teacher/professor/whatever just so I know that grade I get for the work I’m producing is not just for existing with a decent intelligence(I’ve had those classes lol where that is the case)</p>
<p>^Haha, totally agree. I have had plenty of those experiences :P</p>
<p>If my school won’t let me take a certain AP due to lack of interest, then I would self-study it. However, I really do not want to take that route because I do like having the teacher actually talking to me in the flesh. It definitely depends on your work ethic and quality of your teachers. </p>
<p>Sorry to OP for 2 APs, man that must be bad. Try taking classes at CC if you don’t do the online class I guess. I feel for you…</p>
<p>Cooking class is very important. If you ain’t got dem buckos, how the hell you gonna be feeding your family? You gotta cook up some fish you caught in a nearby stream or hunt wild caribou. That’s where cooking classes comes in.</p>
<p>They don’t cook fish. They cook brownies and cakes and other stupid things(which anyone can buy at Wal-Mart). </p>
<p>big dreamer- I’m glasd I took Bio already, and I wanted to tak e Calc, but now I can say I’ve taken all of the limited AP’s at my school. Maybe I should try taking classes at CC.</p>
<p>I don’t recommend calculus online and if you’re going to take it at your CC you need to get over there soon. The next time you can register will probably be the purge date, or around the 18th, but you need to get over there now. Classes start the 20th.</p>
<p>Oh, and you’re going to have to pay for your own textbooks. My calc book was the new Larson one and it cost me $178 online compared to $220 in the bookstore.</p>
<p>Exactly how my school is! We only have a few AP classes, and AP French and AP Spanish were cancelled this year (just my luck! my two favorite subjects and this was my year to take them). Now they’re just French 4 and Spanish 4.</p>
My calc book was the new Larson one and it cost me $178 online compared to $220 in the bookstore.</p>