<p>1) We aren't allowed to take AP World History instead of regular world history in 10th grade, and we don't have an honors world history class.</p>
<p>2) We don't have AP English Language (apparently our 11th grade honors class is sufficient, but not many actually take the exam o_o), AP Government, or AP Economics, even though we're supposedly one of the top public high schools in California. (We also don't have AP Comp Sci...) Our school is only starting to offer AP Physics C starting in the 2011-2012 school year.</p>
<p>3) (This particularly annoys me.) Acceleration in math classes is limited to about ~30 people out of 500 in each class, almost all of which are chosen in 6th grade based on standardized test scores and a placement test. No form of acceleration besides this is available. This causes relatively late bloomers (who decide to study ahead in math) to be stuck in the class deemed "correct" for them, even though they may be far ahead of the curriculum.</p>
This is true for my school! The group is chosen by a placement test, but all of my school is chosen by a standardized test, so I guess it’s 100% true. One guy doubled up to skip and one other guy magically got to Calc in the 10th grade.</p>
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<li><p>If you make below an 80 in an honors/gifted class, they won’t allow you to take the next class in the cluster. Fail an AP class, no one cares.</p></li>
<li><p>Anyone can take an AP class, but you have to have a 95 in a reg. ed. class to take an honors/gifted class.</p></li>
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<p>Lol, we don’t even have AP world history. We don’t even have a class called world history: there’s something called “global history” that you have to take for two years.</p>
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<p>Same here. My school even cancelled AP chem for next year.</p>
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<p>No APs in 10th grade either. No APs in junior year except APUSH, a class where we were only on the 1920s two and half weeks before the AP exam.</p>
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<li>Sign a waiver to take more than 3 Honors/AP classes</li>
<li>Rarely allows people to take 6 or more AP/Honors</li>
<li>We can’t just sign up for AP/Honors. We have to try out through getting recommendations, taking placement exams, and meeting many prerequisites. There’s only 1 AP Econ class at our school next year; at least 3/4 of people got rejected</li>
<li>Some teachers are almost anti-progress. The Calculus teacher (dept. head) requires Calculus AB before BC. She also only allows Seniors to take BC. The foreign language dept. head refuses to allow non-natives to skip a level in language even though the student is academically capable to do so</li>
<li>My school is really fed up about packing as many students into a class as possible because of its budget issues. That just reduces the number of possible Honors/AP classes</li>
<li>My school doesn’t have AP Physics C and AP Government</li>
<li>We must take 3 years of PE</li>
<li>The requirements for taking NORMAL Biology is ridiculous (3.25 GPA, “A” in previous science, math, and English)</li>
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<p>'totes knew a guy who took AP Calc AB when we were freshmen. (Asian. No stereotypes here!)</p>
<p>1) No US History Honors class. I mean, I’m taking AP, but it’s not fair to my other classmates who would find the on-level too easy and AP too hard.</p>
<p>2) No orchestra. I was sad to find that out after playing for 6 years in a different district. I enjoyed orchestra, too. The only orchestras around here are for churches. I am “muslim”, and you join the church to play in it… </p>
<p>3) Creating the “Math ___” classes. I’d rather take Algebra blah blah with Trigonometry blah, instead of mixing all of them up together. And of course, class o’ 2012 is the experimental grade that gets to go through the trials and tribulations of this new learning system.</p>
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<li>No AP’s for Freshman and Sophomores</li>
<li>An 90+ in honors is required to be considered for honors the next year.</li>
<li>You must apply to be in honors or ap</li>
<li>Only 3 languages (spanish, french, latin).</li>
<li>Many easier AP’s are only for seniors</li>
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<li><p>The way my school sets it up, it’s impossible to take APs until your junior year</p>
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<li>AP Chemistry, Physics and Biology are offered on alternate years so if say AP chemistry was offered while you were in your jr year but you hadn’t taken all the pre-reqs yet (honors biology and chemistry) then your chance to take it is gone because it won’t be there your senior year stupid if you ask me</li>
<li>In 9th grade, everyone takes college prep or foundations world history or human geography. There’s no honors (and as I said no APs). That class was a joke,lol</li>
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<li><p>My big issue was that the school wouldn’t let me take AP Calculus AB and IB Math Studies SL at the same time. I wanted to be in HL math but they said no because I hadn’t been able to fit AP Calc in my junior year (six month stay abroad sophomore year kind of ruined my schedule). I still wanted calculus but i needed the math studies for my IB diploma and they told me pick one or the other Instead, I’m now taking calc this summer at a local community college and going straight to HL senior year I have thwarted my evil school’s plan to keep me back :D</p></li>
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<li>No AP’s for Freshman year.</li>
<li>Doesn’t allow sophomores who passed Algebra 2 as freshman take AP Statistics.</li>
<li>No Calculus BC class, so I’m stuck in Calculus AB.</li>
<li>The District Course Catalog lies. My school doesn’t even have AP Environmental Science or AP Computer Science A.</li>
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<li>No AP’s for freshmen and sophomores (unless you’re ahead in math)</li>
<li>Not a huge selection of AP courses. AP Chem got dropped due to lack of interest, no AP Bio, only AP Physics B, only Calc AB, no AP Psych or Comp Sci or Econ, etc. etc. You get the point.</li>
<li>Only three languages, all European (Spanish, French, German). Come on… I live in California! I can’t get an Asian language?</li>
<li>If you weren’t in honors from the start you have little to no chance to getting into AP.</li>
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Here too. Except for the Latin that’s been required since 18xx when the school was established. People campaign for more languages every year with no success. Italian was taught for about 3 years while I was there, but it was almost Sicilian. Ancient Greek was required a long time ago, but most people are happy it’s gone.</p>
<p>I finally thought of one of my own. Honors is an 8th and 9th grade program into which only 80 students are put (our of 350-400 students in each class). Not getting into it in 8th grade means, with the exception of about 5 kids, not being in it in 9th grade. Since honors classes are weighted, if you aren’t in it, you can’t be val, and have to work much harder to be ranked in the low end of even the top 50 than do kids who were in it on account of early successes. Kids who weren’t in Honors have a hard time getting into AP’s and AA’s in soph year (and thus, in the years that follow), further messing up their ranks. I was in Honors, but this still bothers me, especially considering the racial and socio-economic makeup of Honors.</p>
<p>I’m in great classes next year, but I love complaining as much as the next person, so here goes:</p>
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<li><p>The school tracks its students from elementary school (it’s a K-12 school) so that the highest level of math you can be in as a senior is BC Calc. I think if I had had pre-Algebra in 6th grade and Algebra I in 7th, I could have finished BC Calc this year (11th grade).</p></li>
<li><p>We have 7 periods a day and one of them must be a free period, meaning that you can only take 6 classes a year. Therefore, if you have a “regular” schedule of Math, Science, English, History, Language, you only have one option open. I really wanted to take Art Seminar (highest art class), but opted to take Java (basically AP Comp Sci) instead. It was an annoying choice to make. I want both! Luckily Art Seminar is in my free period, so I can take it for no credit.</p></li>
<li><p>Everyone takes the same English class in 10th grade. No exceptions, no honors, or anything.</p></li>
<li><p>If you want to take two languages (which is usually Latin and French/Spanish/Chinese), you can’t take Art as a freshman or History (which is usually APUSH if you’re smart) as a sophomore. This caused me to drop Latin, which I’m pretty sad about because I was good at it, liked it, and had had 4 years of it already.</p></li>
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<p>One of the high schools i applied to has a very good reputation, but there are absolutely no honors, AP, or advanced courses in any subject, they consider their classes harder then AP. (though i seriously doubt that)</p>
stupid if you ask me</li>
I have thwarted my evil school’s plan to keep me back :D</p></li>