<p>Not really. Well, the non-honors/AP are, but some honors and AP classes can pose a challenge. Usually the sciences and English, in our school.</p>
<p>My school is (well at least freshman year). I honestly really didn’t put that much effort. I end with all A+'s. Bio, Geometry (which was my screw off class), and English Hon were all over 100%. Eng Hon was 120% lol. My english grade was the highest in the school, and I am ranked #1(but so are like 10 other people) so it’s not like everyone had grades like mine. I’m happy that our school is chill, but from what I understand it gets harder.</p>
<p>We can only take one AP, AP World History, sophomore year and none freshman. Math only goes up to AP Calculus AB. It’s not that bad looking at the average school, but it just seems kind of mediocre compared to some of the awesome schools you read about people going to on here.</p>
<p>^ Same, the only AP Sophomores can take is AP World. But my school goes up to Calculus III, they are only like 10-12 people in that class though. I wish my school had Organic Chemistry, Genetics or something like that. I remember reading somewhere that one school had Marine Biology~!</p>
<p>Same here. We have about 800 kids in our school, and usually only about 50 to 75% complete Algebra 2. Only 20 to 30 kids a year are smart enough to end up in Precalculus. Out of those, usually only 3 or 4 make it to AP Calculus AB. We don’t even offer AP Calculus BC.</p>
<p>We do not offer any kind of honors classes - so all kids ranging from really smart people to kids failing all their classes are lumped together in the same classroom, and teachers usually teach to the lowest common denominator. We do offer AP classes that offer a way out, but usually the teachers don’t teach very well and most kids end up failing the test. Over 100 kids have taken APUSH in the past five years or so - yet only maybe four kids have gotten a 3 or higher.</p>
<p>I think the classes at my school are challenging, but I’m not a genius or anything. Some of my friends have straight high-As and everything seems so easy for them, so they might say my school is a joke. I think it all depends on the student, but for the most part, I think my school has good academics. I had a 4.1 weighted last year and I was barely in the top 10%.</p>
<p>@FantasyVesperia My school has Oceanography if that counts.</p>
<p>My school was pretty easy.</p>
<p>Except for classes like AP Chemistry and AP Physics.
It’s number two in my state. Magnet school, I think.</p>
<p>@FollowTheReaper</p>
<p>That’s really cool~! I just get tired of the traditional science courses at my school.</p>
<p>Yeah, if you think grade deflation and a workload that probably counts as torture is your idea of a joke</p>
<p>At my school, if you do all of the homework, you will get all A’s pretty much, lol. It’s a joke, and I’m nervous because challenging is going to be such a rude awakening.</p>
<p>In my school, I took regular history and english classes the first half of freshman year. That was a joke. But the kids didn’t know any better (most of the kids in my english class weren’t native english speakers, and there were some very trashy kids in my history class that didn’t know what county we lived in). I got placed into honors mid-year, and it’s a tad more rigorous (English more so than history). The weird part is, my grades in those classes only went UP when I moved up to honors. lol. Another thing is that teachers are very chill. Cheating has happened in plain sight but they didn’t care. The best one was when the teacher LEFT THE ROOM in the middle of a test lolol…
Anyways, its the academics in my STATE that are a joke by all means…the curve they have on state tests!! GRRR…</p>
<p>Does anyone else have the problem of your school not offering AP’s? And as for how bad the grade inflation is, our “honors” classes are the exact same curriculum as regular, the only difference is that honors courses get three points added to the final grade.</p>
<p>Last year my school had APUSH, English Lit, and Bio. </p>
<p>Next year it’s going to have US, Lang, Lit, Bio, Calc, Comp Gov, Art.</p>
<p>I can honestly say Calc and Comp Gov are there solely because of my campaigning.</p>
<p>@mosheimh
In a few of my classes, the honors students have approximately the same amount of in-school work as the generals students. However, the honors students have to complete National History Day and Science Fair projects in addition to the regular coursework. These 2 projects are usually graded really easily, so it’s almost like a free grade boost.</p>
<p>My school chooses random classes to call honors just for fun. Like, if you take Chemistry it’s a free honors class even though it’s just another regents class. It’s honors because it’s the first year you can choose which class you want, so the dumb kids take forensics and the smart kids or dumb kids who think they’re smart take chem.</p>
<p>I hope you don’t mind a parent butting in here but I’m sad/happy to hear that my daughter isn’t alone in finding the academics at her high school to be a joke so far. She had 97s and above (100s in 2 classes, 99 in 2 others and a 97 in the last one) in all her classes without doing very much work. This is really different from what my older daughters experienced at a different, grade-deflated high school so I was worried and she was frustrated. Next year she’s taking honors math and we hear that the difference between regular math and honors math is extreme. So things may be different.</p>