<p>My school is underperforming and does not offer much AP courses.</p>
<p>I have taken all of them except one.</p>
<p>Are there any recommended online schools I can go to to take courses?</p>
<p>What online school has AP Comparitive Government and Politics?</p>
<p>Thank you for all your help.</p>
<p>These may help:</p>
<p>[CollegeData</a> - Prepare & Apply - Take AP Online](<a href=“http://www.collegedata.com/cs/content/content_getinarticle_tmpl.jhtml?articleId=10029]CollegeData”>http://www.collegedata.com/cs/content/content_getinarticle_tmpl.jhtml?articleId=10029)
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<p>[Apex</a> Learning | Catalog | Advanced Placement Courses | Social Studies | Social Studies | AP U.S. Government and Politics](<a href=“Error 404 | Edmentum”>Error 404 | Edmentum)</p>
<p>University of Missouri is accredited for offering high school classes and have some AP and “gifted” (i.e. honors) classes available. They offer AP US Government and Politics. Here’s a link to the course list:
[Online</a> High School Courses | Diploma | MU High School](<a href=“http://cdis.missouri.edu/high-school-subject-courselist.aspx]Online”>http://cdis.missouri.edu/high-school-subject-courselist.aspx)</p>
<p>You can also just self-study and request to take the AP exam at your school.</p>
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<p>That’s true, my son did that for 4 subjects last year, 3 of which weren’t offered by his school.</p>
<p>Has anyone tried either of these two on line high school AP Classes, APEX US Government or University of Missouri US Government? My son’s senior year schedule doesn’t seem to lend itself to a US Gov, and he needs it go graduate. His GC said it was fine to take an on-line gov class and then take the AP test at the high school. Thanks for any input.</p>
<p>We used Virtual High School (which our high school has now joined and is very happy with, but we did it privately) and Aventa Learning, which has a good website.</p>
<p>The umbrella organization for these two and several others is Educere at [url=<a href=“http://www.educere.net%5DEducere%5B/url”>http://www.educere.net]Educere[/url</a>]. They have listings of several programs and you can mix and match, so to speak.</p>
<p>Cost was around $400/course, about the same as a community college (which is another option that accomplishes the same purpose as AP, meaning more advance work than high school level, and potential credit at college).</p>
<p>Some kids absolutely blossom with online courses, others have trouble with the lack of contact and time management requirements.
Virtual High School goes by the week, meaning all work needs to be done by, say Friday each week; Aventa is more self-paced and open-ended (good for performers who have tough weeks w/rehearsals and shows, and then freer weeks). So look into details like this before signing up. Also be aware that online courses finish all the material (unlike many schools) and so can be fairly rigorous at the AP level (but scores on the AP exam tend to be better as a result).</p>
<p>I’m sure my son would be better off in a classroom, but this should work. He did online health one year and managed to finish on time with an A - although it was just barely an A!</p>
<p>My son took AP Computer Science through Virtual High School and was not happy with it. It had no pre-requisite, so a lot of time was wasted teaching very basic intro to programming stuff, and he realized near the end that the was quite under-prepared for the AP exam and began to self-study (not sure yet of course how well that paid off). He thought the teacher was poor, though I believe there are multiple different teachers who teach it.</p>
<p>My D took AP US Govt through Laurel Springs Online last summer:
[Course</a> Details | AP U.S. Government and Politics (Semester) | Laurel Springs](<a href=“http://www.laurelsprings.com/course-details/?GradeID=14&CLength=18&ItemGroupID=53&GradeLevel=Twelfth%20Grade&Subject=History]Course”>Private K-12 School | Accredited Independent Online School | Laurel Springs School) </p>
<p>We selected that program because it is approved by UC to satisfy their a-g requirements.</p>
<p>It was a thorough course, with readings from original sources and lots of writing (~ a dozen long-form essays, and dozens of short-answer and DBQ-type responses). The course is completed asynchronously, on the student’s own schedule, and you can take up to 6 months. My D worked ~200 hours over a period of ~4 weeks. </p>
<p>One downside to doing the course this way, over the summer, was that she had an 8 month gap and then had to review on her own (alongside the rest of her challenging in-school curriculum) for the AP test. It was hard to fit in studying for an extra subject, so she didn’t feel as well-prepped for that AP test as she did for subjects that she took during the regular school year.</p>
<p>Has anyone had any experience with AP French at VHS?</p>
<p>If an online class is not satisfactory, or does not give adequate preparation for exams, I would call the school. I would also have the student contact the teacher. In one online class (Aventa) the exams consisted of the most difficult AP exam questions from past exams. I took awhile to figure this out. Also, there was a mismatch with the text: since the teacher was using AP questions, rather than the text, as a basis for exams, the answer was not necessarily in the text. We dealt with this. My daughter called the teacher who did coaching with her, based on his knowledge of what was going to be asked on the exams. He did not “cheat” nor did she: he pointed her to resources. It ended up being a great experience. But I felt strongly that if we paid $400, we were going to get our money’s worth or our money back!</p>
<p>VHS was great so sorry that one of you had a bad experience. Our local public school joined and the online classes have been virtually miraculous in inspiring some students who hate learning in the classroom.</p>
<p>Did you check out BYU?</p>