AP CLASSES why so much homework?

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Anonymous wrote:Forget AP Classes, those are college level and expected to have a lot of work. Why is my freshman in History honors drowning in SO MUCH homework? Every weekday evening and most of the weekend is spent ONLY on finishing up History assignments. And no, the teacher does not give any time in class to work on hw. Kid manages to finish all the other classes hw during Study Hall and comes home and does only history work every day. I have a suspicion that the history teacher is deliberately overloading the hw so that the kids will drop down to lower level. The same teacher is teaching AP World also and I suspect they are trying to scare away the kids from AP World with too much work. Thankfully, the other teachers are giving normal hw.

+1 omg bless you. My poor kid is in the same boat. We have no idea why this teacher is assigning gobs of work. It is absolutely insane. My son is also spending hours on it. The sad part is the work is only for completion. The teacher doesn’t teach - just assigns reading (they read it outloud in class old school round robin style) and then they are given these ridiculous assignments that keep them busy the rest of the period. They cannot ever possibly be finished with them.

The teacher is teaching the kids how to study.

If your kid doesn't want to study and learn, then just scribble through the work and don't waste time making it correct.

I don’t agree that simply reading a text outloud in class and assigning work after that is teaching my child “how to study.” If there was a lecture or discussion, where my child had to take take notes, and then study said notes, that might be “teaching him how to study.” But assigning copious amounts of busy work with zero discussion is not it.

Is it possible that your kid is not relaying accurate information about what they are doing in class?

No. He is a straight A student and extremely truthful.

Also, I can see they don’t have any notes taken from lectures.

I guess your kid is lazy, or notes aren't important.

My kid learned the incredibly complex skill of note taking in middle school

Not at all, more like the teacher is lazy. Having kids read outloud the text during class time to kill time and then simply assigning independent work with no discussion? That’s the definition of lazy teaching.

What school is this?

It does not sound like your kid is telling you an accurate story.

Whenever my kid tells me something so outlandish, I ask them to explain it to me slowly, then type it word for word in the body of an email.

I preface the body with "Dear Teacher. My kid informed me that this is occuring in your class.

(Insert exact outlandish complaint from my kid)

Can you please fill in any holes that might be missing from my kid's version of events?"

I then read the entire email back to my kid and ask them if I can hit send.

Nearly every time, after hearing me read their complaint out loud back to them, combined with the threat of me sending the email to the teacher as written, my kids corrects the original complaint to something that makes a heck of a lot more sense and which often switches the fault from the teacher to my kid.

Did you miss my earlier post where I explained this teacher writes a quick summary online of what was done in class for every period? It matches exactly what my child said. I don’t need to threaten to email the teacher to get the “truth” from my child. What a stupid idea.

Your initial post said 2 AP teachers are doing this.

It seems that details are missing from your kid.
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What school has multiole AP teachers teaching like this?

AP teachers are usually the best teachers in the school.

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Anonymous wrote:Forget AP Classes, those are college level and expected to have a lot of work. Why is my freshman in History honors drowning in SO MUCH homework? Every weekday evening and most of the weekend is spent ONLY on finishing up History assignments. And no, the teacher does not give any time in class to work on hw. Kid manages to finish all the other classes hw during Study Hall and comes home and does only history work every day. I have a suspicion that the history teacher is deliberately overloading the hw so that the kids will drop down to lower level. The same teacher is teaching AP World also and I suspect they are trying to scare away the kids from AP World with too much work. Thankfully, the other teachers are giving normal hw.

+1 omg bless you. My poor kid is in the same boat. We have no idea why this teacher is assigning gobs of work. It is absolutely insane. My son is also spending hours on it. The sad part is the work is only for completion. The teacher doesn’t teach - just assigns reading (they read it outloud in class old school round robin style) and then they are given these ridiculous assignments that keep them busy the rest of the period. They cannot ever possibly be finished with them.

The teacher is teaching the kids how to study.

If your kid doesn't want to study and learn, then just scribble through the work and don't waste time making it correct.

I don’t agree that simply reading a text outloud in class and assigning work after that is teaching my child “how to study.” If there was a lecture or discussion, where my child had to take take notes, and then study said notes, that might be “teaching him how to study.” But assigning copious amounts of busy work with zero discussion is not it.

Is it possible that your kid is not relaying accurate information about what they are doing in class?

No. He is a straight A student and extremely truthful.

Also, I can see they don’t have any notes taken from lectures.

I guess your kid is lazy, or notes aren't important.

My kid learned the incredibly complex skill of note taking in middle school

Not at all, more like the teacher is lazy. Having kids read outloud the text during class time to kill time and then simply assigning independent work with no discussion? That’s the definition of lazy teaching.

What school is this?

It does not sound like your kid is telling you an accurate story.

Whenever my kid tells me something so outlandish, I ask them to explain it to me slowly, then type it word for word in the body of an email.

I preface the body with "Dear Teacher. My kid informed me that this is occuring in your class.

(Insert exact outlandish complaint from my kid)

Can you please fill in any holes that might be missing from my kid's version of events?"

I then read the entire email back to my kid and ask them if I can hit send.

Nearly every time, after hearing me read their complaint out loud back to them, combined with the threat of me sending the email to the teacher as written, my kids corrects the original complaint to something that makes a heck of a lot more sense and which often switches the fault from the teacher to my kid.

Did you miss my earlier post where I explained this teacher writes a quick summary online of what was done in class for every period? It matches exactly what my child said. I don’t need to threaten to email the teacher to get the “truth” from my child. What a stupid idea.

Your initial post said 2 AP teachers are doing this.

It seems that details are missing from your kid.
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What school has multiole AP teachers teaching like this?

AP teachers are usually the best teachers in the school.

Did you read the post at 09:01? The one directly before yours? I’m not the OP, but had piggybacked on about a freshman honors course. My postings are not about the AP class.

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Yes AP history is Terrible I wish we knew so that we could tell our kid to skip it. Contrast to AP precal and computer science which our kid is getting an

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Anonymous wrote:Be thankful that the teachers are preparing your kids for college. If they are not college bound then let them take honors or gen Ed classes.

These classes are not good for preparing because history majors regret wasting money on that degree and should have done stem

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Anonymous wrote:Yes AP history is Terrible I wish we knew so that we could tell our kid to skip it. Contrast to AP precal and computer science which our kid is getting an

+1 we are going to advise our kid to skip AP History. Not worth it.

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Anonymous wrote:Be thankful that the teachers are preparing your kids for college. If they are not college bound then let them take honors or gen Ed classes.

These classes are not good for preparing because history majors regret wasting money on that degree and should have done stem

No they don't. (Or they may say that but don't mean it.)

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Can my kid still get into UVA without AP History?

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OP, a 3 on the (eventual) AP Test = a college C. Likely the teacher is nervous that students could even score a 2. That *should* equal a D in the class. Few teachers/schools hold HS students to that standard. But that is the standard.

The teacher may or may not by good at teaching at AP. What the best students do is manage their grades, carefully. They make some hard decisions sometimes about what takes priority. Let a few things slip. They know the weighing for different assignments.

The bigger lesson is managing the stress.

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I took AP classes when I was in high school. I had that experience and I don't think kids have changed that much. Took 2 senior year. I'm not going to approve a schedule based on what others are doing. Just not doing it. Kids won't be competitive for UVA/WM without the AP madness. Planning for OOS.

Radford, CNU, Mary W, many of the lower ranked VA publics ... the FCPS students are over-qualified. HS students did not need all that stress to get in.

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Anonymous wrote:Forget AP Classes, those are college level and expected to have a lot of work. Why is my freshman in History honors drowning in SO MUCH homework? Every weekday evening and most of the weekend is spent ONLY on finishing up History assignments. And no, the teacher does not give any time in class to work on hw. Kid manages to finish all the other classes hw during Study Hall and comes home and does only history work every day. I have a suspicion that the history teacher is deliberately overloading the hw so that the kids will drop down to lower level. The same teacher is teaching AP World also and I suspect they are trying to scare away the kids from AP World with too much work. Thankfully, the other teachers are giving normal hw.

+1 omg bless you. My poor kid is in the same boat. We have no idea why this teacher is assigning gobs of work. It is absolutely insane. My son is also spending hours on it. The sad part is the work is only for completion. The teacher doesn’t teach - just assigns reading (they read it outloud in class old school round robin style) and then they are given these ridiculous assignments that keep them busy the rest of the period. They cannot ever possibly be finished with them.

The teacher is teaching the kids how to study.

If your kid doesn't want to study and learn, then just scribble through the work and don't waste time making it correct.

I don’t agree that simply reading a text outloud in class and assigning work after that is teaching my child “how to study.” If there was a lecture or discussion, where my child had to take take notes, and then study said notes, that might be “teaching him how to study.” But assigning copious amounts of busy work with zero discussion is not it.

Is it possible that your kid is not relaying accurate information about what they are doing in class?

No. He is a straight A student and extremely truthful.

Also, I can see they don’t have any notes taken from lectures.

I guess your kid is lazy, or notes aren't important.

My kid learned the incredibly complex skill of note taking in middle school

Not at all, more like the teacher is lazy. Having kids read outloud the text during class time to kill time and then simply assigning independent work with no discussion? That’s the definition of lazy teaching.

What school is this?

It does not sound like your kid is telling you an accurate story.

Whenever my kid tells me something so outlandish, I ask them to explain it to me slowly, then type it word for word in the body of an email.

I preface the body with "Dear Teacher. My kid informed me that this is occuring in your class.

(Insert exact outlandish complaint from my kid)

Can you please fill in any holes that might be missing from my kid's version of events?"

I then read the entire email back to my kid and ask them if I can hit send.

Nearly every time, after hearing me read their complaint out loud back to them, combined with the threat of me sending the email to the teacher as written, my kids corrects the original complaint to something that makes a heck of a lot more sense and which often switches the fault from the teacher to my kid.

Did you miss my earlier post where I explained this teacher writes a quick summary online of what was done in class for every period? It matches exactly what my child said. I don’t need to threaten to email the teacher to get the “truth” from my child. What a stupid idea.

Your initial post said 2 AP teachers are doing this.

It seems that details are missing from your kid.
.
What school has multiole AP teachers teaching like this?

AP teachers are usually the best teachers in the school.

Did you read the post at 09:01? The one directly before yours? I’m not the OP, but had piggybacked on about a freshman honors course. My postings are not about the AP class.

Did you read the original post?

OP said AP lit and AP bio... 2 junior level AP classes.

You really should start your own thread about your freshmen classes.

Freshman classes are VERY different from 11th grade classes, in rigor, requirements, depth and expectations.

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Anonymous wrote:Can my kid still get into UVA without AP History?

No.

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My first kid never took AP courses, ended up dropping out of college.

My second kid took 13 total. It was a lot of work and transferred 3 semesters worth of credit. Now a Sophomore , has a 4.0, gpa. The APs courses were great prep.

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Anonymous wrote:Can my kid still get into UVA without AP History?

No.

Even if they have legacy?

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Anonymous wrote:Can my kid still get into UVA without AP History?

No.

Bull.

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Anonymous wrote:Can my kid still get into UVA without AP History?

No.

Bull.

Absolutely true.

UVA wants the most rigorous course load for your high school.

For almost all of FCPS, the most rigorous course load includes AP History.