<p>Our high school offered Physics B concurrently with Algebra 2 and kids seemed to do fine. A lot of kids who took it were sophomores who had taken Algebra 1 and high school biology in 8th grade. Forcing kids interested in AP Physics C to do three years of physics in high school seems crazy to me. I think our high school would end up going back to having an honors physics course, so that the STEM kids could still easily take the three major science courses as APs (Bio, Chem, Physics C).</p>