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<li><p>We only offer spanish 1 and 2 and latin 1 and 2</p></li>
<li><p>so easy to get into an honors or AP class</p></li>
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<li><p>Skipping a math year ONLY happens in 6th grade and you have to pass a test. I passed the test, but I was dumb and wanted to stay with friends. I wasn’t old enough to realize that I would hate myself later for not skipping pre-algebra xD</p></li>
<li><p>Too many people are allowed in AP classes, when they clearly can’t do the work</p></li>
<li><p>A ton of cool/important classes are during 4th period, since it is 15 minutes longer. So I can’t take all these classes I want to take.</p></li>
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<p>My district starts advanced math in third grade, and after that nobody else can get in. So that sucked for me, since I moved to this district in 5th grade; especially since I was ranked 13th in the nation on FirstinMath.
13th
in
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But no, I had to take the lower level math class. </p>
<p>And for advanced english, they choose kids in 3rd as well, but luckily they also let kids join after seventh. That’s stupid though; is it too hard to let kids in every year?</p>
<p>No Honors language classes
No APs offered until Junior year (but I just asked my counselor and she let me)</p>
<p>Sent from my SCH-I500 using CC</p>
<p>don’tevengetmestartedlol.</p>
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<li>4 years of gym classes, which is cool and all but if you’re more academically-inclined like I am, by junior/senior year you’re crying because you can’t take psych or law or any other major class because of stupid gym class, in which they don’t really do anything (apparently in first aid all they do is watch episodes of royal pains, that’s useful).</li>
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<p>But hey, JROTC is my free pass from gym, which is kind of funny because i’m the least athletic person in my grade yet by the time I graduate i’ll have 12.5 more gym credits than just about everyone else (herp derp that’s always fun to explain to people).</p>
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<li>Instead of airing single grievances, i’ll just give you numbers. In middle school we had no choices except for foreign language (French or Spanish, except if you had chosen in 3rd grade they basically kept you in that language, my little brother is switching from French to Spanish and he’s going to be WAYYY behind). Going into freshman year, 80% of your schedule was already picked for you…the 5 majors (FL/Math/History/Eng/Science) and gym were locked in there. Until junior year, 70% of your schedule is already picked for you. Only until senior year do you really get any choices. So freshman year you really had no choice besides ‘fun’ classes like study hall and cooking class, sophomore year the same thing (because you had to have 1 art, 1 music, 1 cooking class which are all full-year, PLUS a year of health), then if you were lucky junior year you had one elective class.</li>
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<p>TL;DR: no choices allowed.</p>
<p>Oh an the fact I’m having to take a general trig class instead of honors so that I can take AP Chem. </p>
<p>Sent from my SCH-I500 using CC</p>
<p>Letting incompetent teachers teach APs (specifically AP World and AP Chem).
Having a woman whose first language is not English teach English (though her insight on the Russian revolution and the Soviet Union was interesting… But seriously make her teach HISTORY!)
Can’t waive Senior “Lifelong Wellness” unless like 5 different people approve it and you take a certain number of APs.
Having the same part-time teacher teach 3 different art classes, leaving ONE CLASS PERIOD PER DAY for each class. It sucks for schedules that are already limited.
Letting band kids get out of PE for all for years but not athletes (luckily this is getting phased out).
No AP Gov’t or Art History (yet, we’re trying for Art History next year)</p>
<p>There are some good things though-
9th graders can skip into English 10, allowing them to take AP Lang as sophomores.
AP Lang, World history, Psych, 3D design, and Environmental sci available for sophomores.
FANTASTIC Athletic Training program.
Lots of Career classes and great Visual/Performing arts programs.</p>
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<li><p>AP English Language and Composition is an elective–meaning it is required to take a regular or honors English 11 as well as this class. (I hate English, but honors more than AP!)</p></li>
<li><p>You can skip PreCalculus if you’re a junior, but if you’re a sophomore, you can’t skip it. (Only about a quarter of the material was new)</p></li>
<li><p>General Science is a graduation requirement if you didn’t take honors science in 8th grade or transferred from a different school district. I lucked out on this one by a waiver test and they tried to give me the class repeatedly… It covers basically everything you’ll already know if you’ve taken APES, AP Chem, AP Physics, and regular 8th grade science. I’ve already taken them but yet they still tried to give me it this junior year.</p></li>
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<p>-You can only take either AP Psych or AP Human Geo in 9th grade,</p>
<p>-AP Physics and Calculus are for Seniors (and smart juniors) only. Though I did persuade the school to let me take both classes as a Sophomore.</p>
<p>-This is sort of off-topic but: if you miss exams for some reason (maybe a student was suspended or something) you only have two days to make up tests, and you just take the course in your classroom while other students who decided to come to school one the make-up days hang out around you.</p>
<p>-freshman year you have to take two courses worth of freshman english, first semester you take 'freshmen seminar" everyday, second semester is “honors english I”. I think its a waste of a period that I could be taking another class in.</p>