<p>My school board considering eliminating all honors levels in courses where an AP level is offered. What this means is that next year, you could only choose English III AP or English III and only English IV AP or English IV, for example. English I Honors or English I and English II Honors or English II would still be offered, as there is not an AP class for those levels. This proposal would also affect math, science, and social studies classes where both honors and AP levels are offered. In those courses, there would not be an honors level class offered.</p>
<p>I personally think it is a terrible idea, but I was wondering what you all thought?</p>
<p>That’s horrible. How are you to prepare students for AP classes? For example, at my school, we have Regular Chemistry, Honors Chemistry, Pre-AP Chemistry, and AP Chemistry. There’s a noticeable gap between honor and pre-AP. Jumping from Regular Chemistry to AP Chemsitry would be ludicrous.</p>
<p>This is the case at my school, besides mathematics. We have Chemistry I and AP Chemistry, and nothing in between. Same with Physics. There’s Biology, and then either Biology II or AP Biology.</p>
<p>There has never been anything in between at my school, except in 9th grade English and History. We all do just fine without honors classes to “prepare us” for AP.</p>
<p>My D’s school is like that. You’re either in the regular track or the pre-AP / AP track. There’s no intermediate honors track. So for Chemistry, you’d take either Chem I or pre-AP Chem I, either of which are acceptable as a prereq for AP Chem.</p>
<p>I think Honors should be available but I don’t think it’s a big deal if it’s not.
If the regular class isn’t sufficient preparation for AP classes (for an A or B+ student who works hard) that’s not good. The material is the same - an A or B+ student should be able to move up to AP without too many problems. I took AP Bio junior year after regular bio as a sophomore, and I’m doing fine. I actually do better than people who took honors bio as freshman, because I remember more.</p>
<p>My school offers three years of chemistry for some reason.
There’s Honors Chemistry. This is the only prerequisite for AP Chem.
Then there’s Chem II, which you’re supposed to take before AP Chem but you don’t have to. I guess we move through the Honors Chem material so slowly that another class was needed or something.
And there’s AP Chem.</p>
<p>Just this year my school removed Honors English and it is horrible! We used to have Regular, Honors, and AP English. Now, there are people in AP English that really should NOT be in an AP class :l.</p>
<p>I think that taking out Honors courses is not good. I mean, Honors classes are stepping stones to AP classes, but regular classes really aren’t because they’re filled with less intelligent people, well that’s if you attend a public school with 2000 or more students.</p>
<p>At least it doesn’t complicate the schedule / take up as many class periods.
I like AP only because everyone that has it generally gets the same work and experiences that can be related to
My school only offers honors for Geography, the 9th grade class, but it does have the most AP courses in the county.</p>
