I agree with others that it’s time to escalate, or climb the ladder.
At my son’s school, they had to choose classes in January for the following year. They had very strict AP contracts signed by the student, parent and teacher. NO drops allowed at all. They also did not allow more than 3 APs at time without special permission.
However, I do believe that if a parent climbed the ranks, and kept climbing, they would have allowed the drop (with a W on the transcript likely). In my son’s school, that would have meant going up past the principal to the president. In public schools, I think you could go all the way to the superintendent (or school board?).
Best of luck to you and your daughter, OP. Hope you come back with an update.
“They also did not allow more than 3 APs at time without special permission.”
I just have to say that I really like this policy. First, it keeps kids from getting overloaded. Second, it allows kids to explore their interests and not select classes solely to chase GPA and/or valedictorian.
My kids’ HS does not require it. I think I had to sign off on the freshman schedule (done in January of 8th grade), but they did all subsequent schedules in meetings with their guidance counselors during the school day and parents were not asked for input or sign-off.
We had to sign off on schedules. My daughter dropped physics in the first week. The teacher is definitely a school favorite. When he asked her why she was dropping she laughingly relied “I so wanted to take a class with you but after three days I am already so li
It’s. That does not bode well for the year”. He laughed with her and signed off on the drop/transfer.
My daughter and my husband went to her counselor, and they’ve decided that she will be dropping AP Physics.However, she will be taking honors physics online with some face to face labs/interaction at another school on Tuesdays. Although, the online course will be for 12 weeks this fall semester, she feels it’ll be easier than AP Physics as it will be less in depth.
After middle school I was not required to sign off on my D’s schedule. She and I talked about it before each semester but the school required nothing from me.
@hoalai Thank you for the update. It sounds like a very reasonable solution and perhaps most importantly one that it seems your D feels comfortable with.
This incident reinforces that while we all want our kids to handle things on their own, sometimes parents must step in and advocate for their children – your D is fortunate that you and your H were there to support her needs.
Will she do her online class during the period when she once had AP physics or is she on her own to do the online class? if it is not, I worry that it may not be a better solution since Op’s daughter who has so much on her plate will now have to carve out time to take a class and the work that needs to be done for the class on her own.
Is your daughter self directed enough to do the on-line class on her own, without much support from friends in the class, classroom teachers, etc. Just because schools offer on-line courses, does not mean that all students can/do perform well with online content.
@sybbie719 At her high school, there are 7 periods one of them lunch. She will be leaving school early after 6th period to go home and do the online class. There will be some interactive face to face labs on Tuesdays along with her online class.
@hoalai Just a thought – if your D stays late to do ECs at her high school, you may want to see if there is a way she can do the online class on a computer at the HS on those days so the online class won’t interfere with her ability to keep up her ECs.
Again, I’m so glad you found a solution that works for your D and good luck moving forward.
I agree, she should find a way to do the online course at school (using the computers in the school library, computer center). In addition, if she has any questions, she still has resources in the building to help her. I agree, too much back and forth: going home to do on-line work, going back to school to do ECs. leaving school to pick up siblings, helping them with their homework.tutoring and doing her own work, is not going to relieve her stress.