MCPS level of academic rigor
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Anonymous
AP Government is a good opportunity for her to work on her organizational/studying skills. Set up a quizlet account, have her write up notes for each unit to add into it, have the AI turn them into flash cards. You can also find other AP Government sets to study off of. This will help her study now for the AP test. Moreover, it will teach her study skills that she will need as classes ramp up in rigor, particularly APUSH, which includes much more reading, writing, and memorization of facts. |
Anonymous
| I think part of the challenge is many parents remember the end of HS, College annd maybe even post graduate studies, not to mention working, so are looking to see kids buried in work. But we forget it’s a gradual build up, plus there are tools now that makes working a little bit more efficient. |
Anonymous
It’s not that the HS are too huge, but that the individual classes are. If you have 30+ kids times five classes you are going to assign several 10+ page papers unless you have a TA to help grade. |
Anonymous
Some teachers have TAs. But they should have non high school TAs, not high school students. Many need a co-teacher honestly. |
Anonymous
Why? He was getting As so he believed his writing was great. He wasn’t graded on spelling, handwriting, grammar. His straight As disappeared when he went to Catholic school because he wasn’t turning in A work. Public education was crap but they gave students top grades. It’s academic fraud. |
Anonymous
That may be, but it's the huge high schools. |
Anonymous
| AP or IB classes are rigorous. Beside that the rigor depends on the teacher and there is huge variance between classes taught by teachers or at other schools. For sure have your child take AP when offered if your child does not feel challenged. |
Anonymous
| I am pretty sure there was this same question/thread a few months ago. |
Anonymous
AP Gov is much easier than APUSH. Freshman year for both my kids at non-w school was easy. It got harder in sophomore year. For work load, my kids will do homework in class when they have the time. They also go before school or during lunch to get help. So there's a lot of time outside of the house spent doing school work. |
Anonymous
People should search. This topic or similar ones every few weeks or months |
Anonymous
| families actually complain their kid is getting homework |
Anonymous
NP. Some remember the advanced/challenging classes, GT or otherwise, that they took in middle & early high school. Some more challenging than anything taken in college. From the late 60s/early 70s to the early 90s, this was a thing in the US, aiming to meet the needs of highly able students within the context of public education. It seems progressively to have been disfavored ever since, despite the relatively small investment required, when compared to other education initiatives, to effect robust GT programming. |
Anonymous
| My kid went through all 4 years at a W school like this. Took the most rigorous classes across the board. All honors and APs. Did almost all of her work in school and aside from studying for end of year AP exams, never spent more than an hour at night doing work, and often far less. It drove me crazy and I could never understand how she always got straight As with such little work in classes that were supposedly rigorous. I still don’t really know if she was just exceptionally organized and efficient or if it really was that much of a joke. Regardless, she is doing very well at a top college. First semester was an adjustment period, but it is for most kids. Your kid will be fine. Try not to worry. |
Anonymous
| Not all kids are fine in college. Many fail out. |
Anonymous
The problem is that the search function is really clunky. |