<p>At my school, for every kid with one college predatory class are three kids with an all Honors and AP schedule. The Honors classes have digressed from strong difficult classes to easier classes. It has become common. Is this just my school or is there more to it?</p>
<p>I think you meant “college preparatory.”</p>
<p>@skieurope That is what I mean, my bad. Autocorrect :/</p>
<p>yes, its pretty common</p>
<p>Not common at my school. But we don’t have honors classes. Our AP classes are pretty hard though.</p>
<p>Just a data point: in my public high school district, the freshman English class that everyone takes is called “Honors English.” The only people who don’t take honors English are ESL students and the small number who are in a remedial class.</p>
<p>Even if we did have honors classes most people would probably still take regular at my school. We have some Pre-AP classes and there are still a lot of people who take the regular versions.</p>
<p>At my school, there are standard, honors, AP, and DE classes. Taking honors classes at my school is incredibly common, but that’s mostly because there are no real standards set for honors. I personally never felt that they were much different than standard, except for in name and credit. I’d like to think that in most schools, honors classes would actually live up to their name. </p>
<p>At my school, there are no regular classes just honor/AP classes. However in comparison to the classwork my friends have in their regular classes at their school, my HW is only a tad bit harder.</p>
<p>Some kids literally take the most challenging stuff available and get 97%+ (thus resulting in a higher letter grade on my school’s weighted system)</p>
<p>Many kids take very challenging courses to, but the differences are “minimal”, like opting for AP Bio instead of AP chem.</p>
<p>At my school, the expectation is that you will take honors, unless you are legitimately terrible at the subject (ratio of honors to nonhonors classes would be 4:1 probably). Also there are a lot of electives that are offered only at the honors or AP level</p>