<p>Has anyone been in the situation where two classes are supposedly the same but one has a completely ridiculous work load compared to the other?</p>
<p>At my school we have two English/Social Studies/Writing Honors classes this year for my grade and they are taught by different teachers. One class is currently finishing up the American Revolution where as the other class is still working on the Spanish Exploration of South America. The class on the American Revolution has crazy strict deadlines with zero late passes where as the teacher of the other class actually suggested to my friend in that class to use SPARK NOTES!</p>
<p>Similarly, one class was given a month to create an essay with in-class work time where as the other class had four days to write the whole essay with zero in-class work time.</p>
<p>It really frustrates me because I am in the harder class but I don't get credit for it so it appears my A is the same as my friend's A in the other honors class even with weighting. It's even worse in high school for my local public doesn't even weight GPAs and last year the valedictorian attended the local CC after four years of remedial classes and electives!</p>
<p>This is mainly a rant post but can someone tell; does it get more standard as you get older?</p>
<p>Sounds a lot like my school. About half of my grade is taking a really easy version of US history, and they're already up to WWII, as I understand it (it's a two-tri course). The other half of my grade, myself included, is taking the excruciatingly difficult APUSH course with the hardest teacher in the school, and we just wrapped up Reconstruction (three-tri course). Unfortunately, my district is weighting grades, so my friend who took the easy history course just so he could be assured val will be earning just as much credit for his A as I will be for mine, even though I'm working harder than he is. <em>sigh</em> </p>
<p>So, yeah, Niamh, I know what you mean, and I just turned this into a rant post of my own. :S</p>
<p>Pretty much every class on campus here. Honors & AP English (all grades) have more than one teacher, Algebra II H has 3, Precalc H has 2, Bio & Chem H have 2, World History H has 2. The only classes that I'd say are about the same are the Precalc H classes. The other classes have one pretty easy teacher & one hard one.</p>
<p>That was like my AP Human class freshman year. About 75 of us had one teacher who gave out 5 A's total and was huge on grade deflation, the other teacher had about 90 students and gave out A's to almost everyone in the class. Thankfully, most people who got those easy A's in Human didn't move on to AP World sophomore year because the grade deflation teacher was the only AP World teacher and they wanted their easy A's instead.</p>
<p>Also sounds kind of like this year, only they are different classes. Pretty much everyone but me in the top 20 is taking US History Dual Enrollment because we've all been hearing since freshmen year how hard APUSH is at our school, although it has an extremely high pass rate. People in the top 20 of my class wanted to be sure to keep their A's because the APUSH teacher makes you really earn the grade, so they took dual enrollment which gives them about 3 pages of reading a week. APUSH, we have about 10 pages of reading a night. Oh well, hopefully colleges will see past this grade grubbing.</p>
<p>Yes, English 3 (H)....the average grade for my teacher is a C, the average grade for the other teacher is a B+...and it's not that the quality of students in the other classes is better (the top three students in the English department are all in my class (determined by a panel of English teachers at the end of the year))</p>
<p>Yep..happens ALOT here.
We usually have 2 teachers for each AP class..unless it's like Calc BC or something higher level. And a million teachers for regular classes. </p>
<p>There are some people who get an easy teacher, sleep through class and manage to get a 99 while someone else struggles to keep their 90 even though they stay up all night studying. It's just insane how much of a difference it can make!! </p>
<p>Like how will colleges view this?? Because you go to the same school but just had bad luck with your schedule. Not much you can do about it though..no use complaining to the counselor..you'll just sound like you're whining..</p>
<p>woah that's so cool, I wish my APUSH teacher wrote the book....the only interesting thing about him is that he owns a multi-million dollar law firm...</p>
<p>I expect about 5 A's for the semester (i.e. 90+) out of ~40 people in AP. In honors, there are kids getting A's who would be failing miserably in AP.</p>
<p>Completely true. Sophomore year, two class options for history: Contemporary World History and Moderns Issues, both regular classes.
Contemp is as difficult as an honors class.
Modern Issues has two teachers. With one, it's as difficult as an honors class. With the other, the class is a total joke.
But since they're all regular classes, adcoms probably won't know the difference between an A in Contemp and an A in Modern Issues.
(For the record, I took Modern Issues with the easy teacher, but unwillingly- scheduling issues, including one class which only had one slot, precluded my taking either of the other two courses.)
There aren't many similar problems like that with my school because we're on the small side, with one teacher for each class (for most classes) and rarely classes with both AP and honors options. AP classes are a lot more difficult than regular ones, but that just makes sense.</p>
<p>Ya, everyone at my school is oblivious, "I don't want to take APUSH so I can get an A" then I tell them how hard it is and they laugh at me.... they have no idea how much it'll help me....</p>
<p>Anyways, Honors English and English are not weighted, expect Honors English is extremely difficult, kinda mad...</p>
<p>btw, my APUSH teacher wears the exact same outfit to school each day, a white dress shirt with the sleeves rolled up and black dress pants</p>