<p>Is it unusual for a good public high school NOT to offer AP Biology in their curriculum?...Ours doesn't, and I'm surprised by that.</p>
<p>Not extremely. Many (most?) have it though.</p>
<p>AP Bio was actually the only AP science my school offered. I wish so much that they had offered physics...</p>
<p>Most schools in my area offer AP Bio, but very few offer any other AP science.</p>
<p>I know a lot of kids who took AP Physics in high school. </p>
<p>Of course, I'm at an engineering school so that might explain it.</p>
<p>Most schools do offer it...Are there any other classes offered at your school that you would be interested in its place? Can you do an independent study?</p>
<p>It seems like the availability of AP classes depends totally on the school. My school will (finally) offer AP Physics next year (although the year after that they're going to implement the IB program), while AP Chemistry used to be taught by a horrible teacher; I believe in the teacher's last year, one person out of a class of twenty passed the AP test.</p>
<p>It depends totally on the school (or school district?) to offer AP courses. It depends on the teacher to actually teach at the level an AP class should be at. :)</p>
<p>For science, my school has AP Bio, Physics B and C, and Chem.. and it's not even a really competitive school. You can still take the AP Bio test if your school doesn't offer the class... you can just study it by yourself, or do an independent study program though the school. Talk to your counselor, I'm sure it's probably been done before.</p>
<p>Yeah we have an excellent chemistry teacher, and so many people have asked her why she won't teach AP chem. She says she doesn't wanna deal with the stress of cramming information down student's throats because she knows she won't have enough time to cover material effectively. I love her, she cares so much about her students. I'm still probably gonna end up doing a self-study on AP Chem in senior year.</p>
<p>Due to the number of snow days we've had, the AP Bio class won't even finish the book before the exam. It's the only AP science offered here too.</p>
<p>j/w, how many snow days have you had??! I live in Michigan and we've only had one... but then again my school district is really strict about snow days.</p>
<p>Oh my gosh..like what..10 at the least. Two years ago we had a whopping number of 16 (or maybe 19) snow days. I live in southern Virginia, and the slightest hint of snow calls for a snow day. We don't even have that '5-day' rule anymore. So we're making it ALL up! Spring break=Fri, Sat, Sun, Mon. And we're already scheduled to leave sometime in June. My school is soo crazy..I can't wait to leave.</p>
<p>My school has had two this year, even though there should have been more, considering the fact I live on a mountain top, and the road dept. doesn't give a damn about us...Anyway, I was very mad to find out schools that don't receive state funding don't need to abide by the 180 day regulation...:( It explains why some schools are closed even when snow is predicted, but it doesn't come...</p>
<p>Sarorah, my school's an idiotic place...We only got Friday, Monday, and Tuesday off for Easter/spring break, and we get off in mid-June...It's usually like this, though, although we got out on June 13th last year...And my school does NOT have all the bizarre breaks some schools have...A week off in the middle of February for winter break? An additional week thrown in somewhere in May? it's crazy what some schools do, because my school is the complete antithesis...We only get Christmas break, Thanksgiving break (Thursday & Friday), our very brief easter break, Memorial Day, in addition to fed. holidays & a couple in-service days...That's it...I don't understand how other schools can start and get out at the same time we do if they have all these extra weeks off...</p>
<p>Same here mcz! And after we have all of those snow days, teachers get peed off because there's not enough time to teach the material, so they give buttloads of homework to the students making THEM even more stressed out than they should be. Strange how similar a former confederate & union state can be :p</p>
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<p>Uhh yeah I go to one of those. My school is public and we start in late August and then vaca's are 1/2 week for Thanksgiving, 2 weeks for xmas, 1 week in Feb for 'mid-winter break', 1 week in MArch for spring break, and then nothing until school gets out mid-June.</p>
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<p>Well, my school doesn't get those superfluous breaks, although I would not oppose having them in any way...</p>
<p>My school doesn't offer AP Biology or AP Chem. It sucks. -.- I wish I went to my old high school, but the people there are really mean. x.x</p>
<p>We don't offer AP Bio. Instead, we have Bio II H. I looked at the curriculum standards set by the teacher and the AP Bio standards...and they're almost identical, so I'm not sure why we don't take the test...</p>
<p>You're school doesnt offer AP bio... Very odd, indeed... I love AP Bio. You might as well just independent study it. You might not get the lab experience though, and apparently one of the essays is always on a lab. But otherwise, independent studying isnt bad. But a school that doesnt offer AP bio.. Hmm... we offer all the AP sciences, and they have fairly low enrollment...</p>