<p>I understand conflicts but this is the first year that you couldn’t do both. That is because his class of 2014 isn’t taking the hard classes. The last few years there was 2 sections of the Eng./APUSH but this year there will only be one. </p>
<p>That is frustrating. The school already dropped 2 AP classes this year and I wonder what will come for the younger kids. More scheduling conflicts like this due to low numbers. </p>
<p>Thanks all for your advice.</p>
<p>You don’t have to take the AP class to take the AP test. There is the option of self study.</p>
<p>Well, your child could try to be proactive in recruiting others. My daughter’s high school is small (<150 kids in 2 grades) and the kids talk courses up among each other to ensure that the class they want makes. My daughter has done that with a math class that she wants and a friend has done it with a computer class he wants.</p>
<p>Alternatively, the teachers could recruit if they wanted more sections of the humanities block. It may be, though, that they’re happy having the kids who’d rather get an easy “A” drop the humanities block.</p>
<p>I will also like to point out that while I prefer the more rigorous courses almost always, US History was the one AP that almost no colleges to which my son applied would have accepted as credit. In fact, his school doesn’t even offer APUSH but instead encourages kids with an A in the class to take this optional extra study hour before school 3 or 4 times before the test. So, what NMN is saying is absolutely true. You can always take the test without taking the actual AP class.</p>
<p>If my kid was interested in english or history, I would encourage that choice. If his interest was more in the sciences and math, I might encourage participation in the choir elective. Our high school’s AP english and history classes had a ton of homework, as did the AP sciences. There is only so much time, so it makes sense to spend it on things that are the most relevant to one’s interests.</p>
<p>Also, re: cutting the second class section due to low enrollment - that happens all of the time. During a time when teachers are being furloughed, fine arts are being discontinued and sports teams cannot be bused to compete, loss of one class section seems pretty low-priority. At least the class still exists! I completely understand how you feel, and agree with you, but something’s gotta give under budget constraints.</p>
<p>I agree with lkf725, our HS won’t hold a class for less then (I think) 10 students and that certainly makes sense to me. AP computer science was dropped this past year, and I heard it won’t be held this year because they don’t have the 10 students needed. I also agree that of the History AP’s, US history is one of the ones that colleges aren’t big on swapping credits for.</p>