SWW AP science/math courses

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Anonymous wrote:Some of your complaints are ridiculous. Go to private school if you want your kid’s school to cater to exactly what you want.

No, you go to private school, where taxpayers asking for bang for their buck for their ed tax dollars won't annoy you for asking for standard public school offerings in this Metro area.

People on here are complaining that freshman and sophomores can’t take upper level AP classes because they are filled by seniors and juniors. It is not standard for freshman to get to take a senior level AP class. I honestly don’t think you know what the typical high school offers especially one that has 600 kids. What more do you want?

Depends on the subject. If a JR or Walls freshman is ready for AP math or a language, let them take it, support them on dual enrollment for appropriate challenge at a college or at least let them take the exam at the school if they want after self-study prep. We know bilingual families whose kids have taken AP language freshman or sophomore year in DCPS and scored 5s.

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Anonymous wrote:Some of your complaints are ridiculous. Go to private school if you want your kid’s school to cater to exactly what you want.

No, you go to private school, where taxpayers asking for bang for their buck for their ed tax dollars won't annoy you for asking for standard public school offerings in this Metro area.

People on here are complaining that freshman and sophomores can’t take upper level AP classes because they are filled by seniors and juniors. It is not standard for freshman to get to take a senior level AP class. I honestly don’t think you know what the typical high school offers especially one that has 600 kids. What more do you want?

Depends on the subject. If a JR or Walls freshman is ready for AP math or a language, let them take it, support them on dual enrollment for appropriate challenge at a college or at least let them take the exam at the school if they want after self-study prep. We know bilingual families whose kids have taken AP language freshman or sophomore year in DCPS and scored 5s.

Yeah okay Walls allows kids to take AP math freshman or sophomore years if they have the appropriate pre-requisite coursework. They do a placement test for languages and many take APs freshman or sophomore years. It seems people just want to complain. No your freshman won’t get into AP Psych. It’s too popular with upper classmen.

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Anonymous wrote:You need to be careful with Jackson Reed as well.
The physics teachers at JR are mostly terrible.
AP Environmental does not have a teacher this year.
AP Psych has been without a teacher also.
One of the AP Chem teachers is terrible.
The highest math offered is AP Calculus BC

The AP Physics teacher they hired mid-year last year is phenomenal. He teaches all of the AP Physics sections. My kid who is taking AP Physics 1 this year is considering taking AP Physics C next year just to have him again.

I don’t think this is entirely correct.
There is one other teacher who is considerably weaker who also teaches AP Physics 1.
And this new teacher is a retired teacher from somewhere else so I would be concerned how long he will stay at JR

Good to hear that only this particular teacher is teaching both AP Physics 1 and AP Physics C at JR. Last year my kid had a terrible experience in AP Physics 1 with a different teacher. Really turned them off physics. And I concede to your point that any teacher can leave at any point. Teacher turnover is pretty high in DCPS
According to my kid, the teacher said he’s the only one teaching AP this year.

Any teacher could leave at any time. Glad JR has this guy for as long as he wants to stay.