<p>No APs until 11th grade, and only 3 per year when you can take them.</p>
<p>My biggest complaint with my school is that it is too easy for kids to get into honors and AP classes, and guidance often completely ignores the set prerequisites when admitting kids into these classes. Instead of these classes comprising the most intelligent and genuinely interested students who truly want to learn and be in a better learning environment, they are instead composed of anyone with half a brain who is capable of rote memorization. This is annoying because the teachers have to dumb down a lot of the material, and we don’t learn as much. I hope that didn’t make me sound conceited or anything lol, but it’s a real problem at my school and a lot of teachers share this belief.</p>
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<li>Limited amount of AP classes because I go to an IB school. The only APs offered are English Language, Statistics, and Government.</li>
<li>For PreIB/Honors Gov’t, you CAN take the AP Gov’t test, but no one tells you about it.</li>
<li>Honors Physics and IB Physics 1 SL are the same class. No one told me about this and I was tricked into taking an IB class w/o knowing it. Thanks counselors.
4.Dress code: Certain people wear provocative outfits w/o getting in trouble and others who decide to wear them one day? They do get in trouble</li>
<li>Limited amount of languages you can take: French, Spanish, Latin and Arabic. No Chinese and we used to have German…</li>
<li>IB classes. Enough said.</li>
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<p>Yeah I attend a public school. Sucks, but oh well, I’m gonna be a senior anyways</p>
<p>My main complaint is that they have various AP classes at the same time. I wanted to take 5 this year, but Spanish and Gov are the same periods as Physics and Calculus, respectively, so I can only take 3. </3 I’m self-studying gov though.</p>
<p>No APs freshman year. Only one AP sophomore year (US Gov) unless you get your parents to complain. You can take as many APs junior year but seniors get preference.</p>
<p>AP and IB classes are combined, so the IB geniuses were setting the curves.</p>
<p>AP and Honor Classes are too easy to get into. You are supposed to fill out a sheet to get recommended but someone people just decided to sign up for the class and get put into it…</p>
<p>very few AP classes like 7 total. and none freshman year, only way to take sophomore yr is APUSH if you skip a class. or if you test out of algebra 2. </p>
<p>counselors cater too much to lower level students.</p>
<p>I complain that I am unable to complain about my school’s policy as it is near perfect and student friendly.</p>
<p>My school won’t let me take Precalc at community college to skip ahead into AP Calc AB or even regular Calc. Apparently their Precalculus course prepares them for their Calculus course, so if I take Precalc outside of school it could interfere with the curriculum? But if I took a college level Precalc course wouldn’t it prepare me even better? Ugh, now I’m only in AP Stat.</p>
<p>My school doesn’t offer Calc BC, so after taking Calculus w/applications, I can only take AP Calc(redundant) or AP Stat(taking now, not challenging).</p>
<p>No AP Physics because not enough people signed up for it(school won’t teach course until it has at least 25 people in it).</p>
<p>No AP Music Theory-same reason.</p>
<p>School offers me default schedules that I have to change myself. Junior year, I’ve been signed up for more APs than I can dream to handle(AP Lit, AP Calc, AP World, AP Chem, AP Music Theory). Senior year, you’re defaulted an abbreviated schedule with nothing but regular English. GRRR. They make you jump through so many hoops to get a proper schedule!</p>
<p>Our school doesn’t really restrict us to anything. The grade requirements are more like loose guidelines :).</p>
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<li>We can’t take AP’s in 9th grade.</li>
<li>We have to take gym for 2 years. </li>
<li>We have to take a personal finance class as an elective.</li>
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<li>All 9th graders need to take “Advisory” class to “ease the transition to high school”- class is basically a free period</li>
<li>Everyone needs to take 4 years of Phys Ed, as well as Health in 9th grade and again in either 11th or 12th grade</li>
<li>No AP’s until 11th grade</li>
<li>Students are selected for the accelerated math program in 6th grade with a placement test and if you’re not selected, you’re stuck in the “regular” math sequence through high school</li>
<li>only three languages- French, Spanish, and Latin</li>
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<p>My biggest complaint is the fact that for many Ap’s such as AP chemistry APUSH or AP lit/Lang we have to take an honors companion course. It is required to get credit for the course but it is only honors which brings down my gpa. It is also taught at an Ap level so it is very difficult.</p>
<p>Oh, how I have waited for a thread like this. Let me see :</p>
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<li><p>All freshman are required to take Earth Science with no honors available. Leaving smart kids having to deal with the general idiots of the school. </p></li>
<li><p>It is far too easy to take a Honors or AP at my school. Honors only requires a B in the class before. Allowing stupid people to take Honors.</p></li>
<li><p>No AP’s until Junior year (this is the worst in my opinion). </p></li>
<li><p>My school only offers 5 AP’s and 3 more online. </p></li>
<li><p>Only 1 AP science course, AP Biology. </p></li>
<li><p>Only one foreign language is offered, Spanish. Really want to take Latin.</p></li>
<li><p>AP Calculus and AP English are double-periods. So if you take these two classes in one year, it will fill up HALF of your schedule…</p></li>
<li><p>No Honors Chemistry, leaving smart kids having to take classes with the morons. </p></li>
<li><p>My school will not allow us to take college courses at the local community college.</p></li>
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<p>We don’t have honors for foreign languages. There are also no AP classes for freshmen.</p>
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<li>There’s no leveling in Social Studies and English as a freshman, so top students end up having classes with failing kids.</li>
<li>You can’t take an AP as a freshman, and its near impossible to qualify as a sophomore.</li>
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<p>Never had a problem with course selection. There was an error on my schedule where I was signed up for Physics for some reason. Fixed at Open House in 2 minutes. You can take APs as a Freshman and Sophomore (I didn’t, however), there’s a dual-enrollment program with a ‘magnet’ high school that allows almost every AP class to be offered (and other cool classes like Alternative Energies), and there is dual enrollment available at the local CC and at UNCSA. </p>
<p>I’ve never not been able to into a class I wanted because it was full. I’ll miss that in college.</p>
<p>IB school. </p>
<p>So many things I hate about that.</p>
<p>First, 9th and 10th grade just have regular level classes and honors. So many people take honors, it’s really annoying. I think I have the highest grade in all of my classes and I’m honestly not that smart; everyone else just sleeps most of the time.</p>
<p>Second, you guys are complaining about how you can only take 3 AP classes when I HAVE to take 6 IB classes in both junior and senior year to get the IB Diploma. I know I don’t have to do the IB Diploma, but for a lot of subjects, my school only offers regular and IB; no honors. I really wish there was a cap to how many IB’s I can take. 6 is just a ridiculous amount.</p>
<p>We’re also required to take an economics class which often times interferes with IB diploma candidates’ schedules.</p>
<p>And lastly, IB has to do a lot with writing, but the English classes focus so much on analyzing readings that they hardly cover basic grammar or writing style. How you say something is more important than what you say, but English teachers are way more concerned about the latter.</p>