My son took both the Common Core and the real Algebra and Geometry regents and kept the higher score. In both, the higher score was in the real regents, the one he had not even taken the class in! What’s really sad is that he said he enjoyed geometry, but not the common core way. He would like to study it in college, but you have to get through algebra first. S17’s math tutor says the same thing that your H does about college math - and he teaches it. He thinks that if S17 was to take some math in college, he’d realize that he has more of an aptitude than he thinks. His LD really skews things. S17 scores very high on comprehension in math but extremely poorly in execution, which is the hallmark of LD.
For English, his class was the first to take only the CC. He earned a 74, but took a 6 day summer review and re-took the class for an 85. Given his dyslexia, I am thrilled that he earned mastery level. Our HS offers no honors English. All it offers is AP Comp in 11th and AP Lit in 12th. He is taking neither of those. He’s a social science kid, 98’s on both regents and an A in AP Psych, with a 3 on the test (enough for credit at a SUNY or the private schools we are considering, which is all I care about).
S17 is being heavily “recruited” by ESF with cards and emails arriving almost daily. He thinks it might be because he checked off that he likes science on the ACT form and that he’s in scouting. If it wasn’t for math, he’d consider studying it more heavily but he had to drop physics last year. Our HS offers a non-regents physics class but S17 opted for APES instead, because he hopes to get some college credit. Out of curiosity and if it’s not TMI, what does your H do with his degree?