Does your HS offer ‘Regular’ History for Freshman?
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We are at a nonW, lower-performing high school.
My kid is supposed to take either Honors History or APUSH in 9th grade. She really dislikes history, but has been in the HIGH class in MS. Explain this to me? Is this like ‘Advanced English’ in middle school, where Honors History is not really ‘honors’? |
Anonymous
| Our W school offers both honors and regular. I think most kids who don’t take AP are in honors. |
Anonymous
| Wootton didn’t offer the option when we lived there. Only Honors history. We moved to a lower SES school cluster and they offer regular history. I put my kid in honors because if Wootton magically thinks he can handle it, he can(and is) handling it at the new school. I think honors classes provide more interesting content. The work my son does is not higher-level work. |
Anonymous
| Some schools have an on level but the honors is the history equivalent of advanced English. It’s not a strenuous course. Kids who like social studies take AP Gov freshman year. |
Anonymous
| Regular classes at our MS are now called Honors. They don't offer anything else. |
Anonymous
The only "Honors" classes offered at middle schools are HS-credit classes such as Geometry, Spanish 3, etc. |
Anonymous
This. It possible that your school only offers Advanced for English and Social Studies, but those courses were never meant to imply that the students were advanced. It was a designation of the skills that would be taught. Hypothetically, all students are capable of mastering those skills. In fact, they are now being incorporated into the “regular” curriculum anyway. So the difference between the regular and advanced designations is really more about pleasing parents than anything else, even pacing. |