<p>My high school had no AP courses at all. It had honors courses, which were not difficult for a good student. There was no calculus. Writing was fairly minimal. College was something of a shock–especially math and French. Fortunately, I was a reader, so English wasn’t bad. I’m just skeptical that there was all this heavy homework in American high schools 30 years ago, except maybe in the really good schools in big cities.</p>