Thank you.
The alternative is a regular class that can be taken for dual enrollment with the community college but is taken on the high school campus. In the case of one my Ks, is interested in doing something with writing but for reasons not worth going into refuses to take the AP Lit teacher (it is not the class, it is the teacher, if it was taught by someone else would take it wllingly). Older sibling refused AP Lit and did fine.
I think the reason the GC thinks it is so important is because there are so few APs available and AP Lit is considered very tough as opposed to something like APUSH or AP Stats.
That is an excellent point that it is either or for credit. We visited a Top 30 school recently and that was what the tour guide said. I will make that point.