High School Course Plan-please rate

See? Exactly!

If you take it DE, you’re off the hook if it doesn’t o well since it’d be on your own time. Would the community college near you offer remedial algebra?

Yes, they have remedial algebra. Since trig and alg 2 would be separate classes, would I take them both as individual courses?

Can we just stop and take a deep breath for a minute?

In a series of 4 or 5 posts, you’ve expressed the interest to:

  • stage a sit in on an Algebra II & Trig class
  • Take a remedial college course for high school credit
  • graduate early
  • repeat your senior year a second time
  • double up on 2 different math classes.
  • use anxiety as an excuse to get what you want.

Could you just take a step back and figure out what it is you want? As I see it, you’ve just completed your freshman year of high school? Why the urgency to find a way to work the system? Why not simply do the best you can in the coursework your guidance counselor suggests you take?

Better yet, why not find some other 15 year olds-- go for a swim, hit the mall, throw around a Frisbee-- in short, enjoy these last few weeks of summer?

College will be there when you’re 17.

I’m not trying to be snide, I seriously think you need to take a step back, and figure out what you’re trying to do here.

Point 1: can’t argue with that.
Point 2: what would be wrong with that?
Point 3: ditto
Point 4: I don’t want to do that now. I realize how misguided that was.
Point 5:(see points 2 and 3)
Point 6: when did I do that? I literally just said that I have an anxiety disorder, not that I would use it as an excuse to get what I want.

I want to graduate high school and go to college. I want to take a pre med track and go to medical school, with a specialization in anesthesiology, and do my residency and pass my boards and establish a medical career. Then I want to pay my parents back every cent they ever spent on me because I feel like a useless burden and that they do not deserve someone so worthless and difficult. Also, I want to be able to see every kind of surgery so that’s why I want to be an anesthesiologist.

I love swimming. I actually live across the street from a river! The nearest mall is an hour and a half away. I’m morbidly afraid of frisbees ever since I got beaned in the head with one. I’m enjoying my last few weeks of summer by staying up until 3 am watching totally spies on Youtube and refreshing College Confidential. I’m also going to be retaking my earth science regents, and I’m going to California to see my extended family.

You don’t sound snide. I know what I’m trying to do :slight_smile:

I believe the point may be that you float a lot of random ideas here without thinking them through. Two days ago it was that colleges would be impressed by a student making a nuisance of themselves by refusing to leave a class they’re not enrolled in. There was no thought given to the fact that it would make the teacher AND anyone else who had to deal with it angry (principal, guidance counselor), that it would not likely result in you actually being able to take the class normally, that even if you got a grade for crashing the class it wouldn’t be a good one, that forcibly removing you would be the natural course of action and would not look good for you, or that you’d be disrupting the education of everyone else in the class.

Today it’ll be something else. And posters here have to spend time thinking it through FOR you. A good what – half an hour? – was spent convincing you of all the logical consequences of refusing to leave somewhere you’re not supposed to be.

So like… I’d advise trying to think things through on your own first.

We are also in NY here. FYI, earth science is actually not required by the state but most students do take it. In the districts in my area, it is considered an easier science and so a good way to begin high school. My older kid took it in 9th grade, although our accelerated science track let her take Living Environment in 8th grade. She knows some kids who skipped earth science and after taking Living Environment in 8th, they went right to (high school level) Chemistry in 9th.

Our school has a track in place to allow interested/ capable kids to accelerate their math sequence once they get to high school. It’s that they have an Algebra 2/ PreCalc pairing. One of my daughter’s friends did it to catch up to friends who had been able to be further accelerated in middle school. They take double math periods all year. In the first semester it’s all Algebra 2 with the January regents and then the second semester is PreCalc with the June local exam. This would only really work for kids very comfortable with math. I would think your guidance counselor would already have told you whether your school has any sort of accelerated math track, but if not then you should look to see.

MODERATOR’S NOTE:

I have to say, I agree. At this point, the discussion has turned circuitous. The OP needs to review options for this academic year with her GC. Many of her other concerns a bit premature as a rising sophomore. Since a regroup stage is needed (and the discussion has gone off-topic and as noted above the discussion is just going in circles), I’m closing this thread.