<p>Jumping up Levels....... o...k. So average class to suddenly AP Calc BC? </p>
<p>lol</p>
<p>I wish my school had honors chem or foreign language.</p>
<p>I've taken some non-honors classes in my 3 years: Latin, Art (one semester), Writing Symposium (one semester), College Writing (one semester), Music (one semester), Health (one semester), and MS Office Suite (one semester). </p>
<p>Out of a total of 42 semesters I have:</p>
<p>6 semesters of AP (3 subjects)
24 semesters of honors (12 subjects)
12 semesters of non-honors (9 subjects)</p>
<p>I've been in honors/AP for all of my English, History, Math, and Science classes, so I think I'm in good shape.</p>
<p>I'm in band....but everything else is AP/Honors lol.</p>
<p>I was in all regular classes freshman year just because I came from a private school and there were all these scheduling problems and I didn't know anybody so I didn't want to switch. Kept up a 4.0 and have been in all honors and AP possible since. But I think being in regular classes is good too- funner in some ways everyone doesn't take things as seriously. And just a good expierence like not to just be with smart kids all the time. This year with my honors classes I still had normal Gym, Music, and Spanish (no honors Spanish in my school) and it was a nice mix.</p>
<p>My school doesn't have "Honors." We have "Accelerated," but those classes aren't weighted and start to die out by sophmore year. Also, language classes don't have an "Accelerated" section, so if you want to take a language, you have to do with with the stupid kids--I mean the "average" kids. The kids on the original accerlated track meant for jhs and early hs usually wind up taking all APs, dwindling req. and ACC classes, and electives.</p>
<p>At my school, the AP situation wouldn't be as bad if there were other classes to pick from, but my school has really skimpy choices. The only language is Spanish, there is no longer a department for technical education (woodworking, metalworking), no computer science class; the calculus class is in its first year, and they've combined government, economics, and geography into one class. For anyone who has never taken a high school class with the average kids, it's definitely a different experience. Objects are constantly flying around the room, people fall asleep all the time, and you can hear "Yay! I got a B!!!" after the teacher hands back a test that was all matching questions.</p>
<p>I suppose I should mention that although my school doesn't offer APs, the latest trend has been to be an unofficial AP class, claiming that they teach on the AP level, so the students can take the AP test if they'd like.</p>