@EconPop said it best!
@Homeschooler14 yes the math works out. If you want to squeeze a months worth of AP Lit, AP chem, or AP physics ( choose your class) into a long day of about 15 hours…it is technically possible. But why would you want to? Is this really learning? No, it’s not. It’s basically checking off a box on a list of things to do. This is not what colleges want to see.
Where is the discussion? How would you learn from your peers? Where is the group learning? What about listening to the perspective of others? What about labs? Lab reports? What about real understanding and not just spitting back information?
My daughter’s AP physics class (public school) was taught by an extremely intelligent man with a PhD in physics. When we attended back-to -school night he let the parents know that this class would not be about memorizing and spitting back information…that’s not what AP physics was. He went on to tell us that the student’s minds would be stretched in ways never thought imaginable…and that the class required a tremendous amount of out of the box thinking. He was right. My daughter went on to receive an A+ in the class and a 5 on the exam…but it was not without a lot of work, discussion, studying, writing and rewriting lab reports, etc. What this class as a whole received from this teacher…could not be squeezed into 15 hours of memorization.
Additionally…the class had to take the state exam in physics at the end of the school year. This exam was not just an “easier” version of AP material. The state exam and the information required for it…was nothing like the class. It was basically like comparing apples and oranges. The teacher would periodically “throw in” a state exam throughout the year so that the class would be ready for it in June. The first time they saw the test…they were very upset. They had to learn yet another way of thinking.
I disagree…you can’t learn in 15 hours what is taught in a month. EconPop nailed it.