Science Class Order

[Anonymous]

AP environmental science at my kids’ high school, Whitman, used to be easy and interesting. They got a new teacher a couple years ago and now is a lot of work, not hard work but still a lot, and still interesting. But not the easy class it was when my older child took it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: Is it true that AP environment is an “easy” AP? Would it make sense to encourage AP env junior year and then physics (level undetermined) senior year? I have a chemical engineering degree and always found physics to be harder that other sciences.

AP Environmental is Easy. I’m the one that posted above and my DD earned a 5 on the test. If you look online it had one of the lowest percentages scores for a 4/5 but that’s because I’m guessing a lot of not-so-smart kids take it versus AP Chem which is going to be filled with smart kids. It’s just a ton of writing. The problem with taking Physics out of sequence is they are less likely to have friends in their classes to study with.

A number of my kid´s friends took both hon bio and hon chem freshman year b/c they are science oriented. The issue with AP Chem and AP Bio is that they are double period courses, so it is hard to make room in schedules to do them