Give me your sophomore’s schedule?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When do your kids do all of the homework for these AP/honors level classes?

Lunch, between activities, weekends. There is very little homework now.

Why? How can kids take honors and AP classes and not have homework? I had hours of homework in HS. In fact, college was easier because I had a lot more out of class time to get the work done.

A lot of kids (not all) find MCPS's Honors courses to be very easy. Workload picks up with AP exams and the harder math classes (honors pre-calc). I'm on my third in HS and so far all of them have pretty much had two or so 'difficult' courses in 9th and 10th (they spend 90% of their studytime on those two courses). By 11th, they're in mostly AP classes and workload increases (11th is a tough year!), but still probably not more than what you remember from HS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:homework is also often only 10% of the grade - and its not looked it, only checked as "completed"

But if kids don't do it, how can they do well in the other 90% of the class? And when is their time in a 45 minute class for start homework? That isn't a lot of time to go over last night's homework, introduce and develop a new concept, and practice it.

You're absolutely correct. Homework is no longer a part of the learning process. They DO sometimes go over it in class, if it is Math etc. and that's where, if there is time, the teacher will re-explain a concept if everyone has got particularly answers wrong, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:homework is also often only 10% of the grade - and its not looked it, only checked as "completed"

But if kids don't do it, how can they do well in the other 90% of the class? And when is their time in a 45 minute class for start homework? That isn't a lot of time to go over last night's homework, introduce and develop a new concept, and practice it.

You're absolutely correct. Homework is no longer a part of the learning process. They DO sometimes go over it in class, if it is Math etc. and that's where, if there is time, the teacher will re-explain a concept if everyone has got particularly answers wrong, etc.

It varies by the teacher, our last year's math teacher was great and gave some homework but they really needed more to master the concepts. Having a book in pre-calc. was helpful. Teachers don't know if they kids need a concept re-explained if they don't have homework. Test scores are down.. this new teaching style is not working.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:homework is also often only 10% of the grade - and its not looked it, only checked as "completed"

That needs to be changed.

[Anonymous]

I’m sure it’s due to equity since that seems to drive every public school’s decision making.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Hon English
Hon Pre-Calc
AP Comp Sci
AP Gov
AP Physics (I forget which one but it's a double period)
Hon Spanish 5

Most sophomores do not take Physics.

Yeah, some take physics in freshman year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hon English
Hon Pre-Calc
AP Comp Sci
AP Gov
AP Physics (I forget which one but it's a double period)
Hon Spanish 5

Most sophomores do not take Physics.

Yeah, some take physics in freshman year

There are different physics classes depending on the school. Some require higher math, some don’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hon English
Hon Pre-Calc
AP Comp Sci
AP Gov
AP Physics (I forget which one but it's a double period)
Hon Spanish 5

Most sophomores do not take Physics.

Yeah, some take physics in freshman year

The typical pathway is Bio in 9th, Chem in 10th, and Physics in 11th.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m sure it’s due to equity since that seems to drive every public school’s decision making.

There is no such thing as equity in mcps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hon English
Hon Pre-Calc
AP Comp Sci
AP Gov
AP Physics (I forget which one but it's a double period)
Hon Spanish 5

Most sophomores do not take Physics.

Yeah, some take physics in freshman year

The typical pathway is Bio in 9th, Chem in 10th, and Physics in 11th.

This is how mine is doing it. What’s senior year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m sure it’s due to equity since that seems to drive every public school’s decision making.

There is no such thing as equity in mcps.

Don't tell them that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:homework is also often only 10% of the grade - and its not looked it, only checked as "completed"

But if kids don't do it, how can they do well in the other 90% of the class? And when is their time in a 45 minute class for start homework? That isn't a lot of time to go over last night's homework, introduce and develop a new concept, and practice it.

You're absolutely correct. Homework is no longer a part of the learning process. They DO sometimes go over it in class, if it is Math etc. and that's where, if there is time, the teacher will re-explain a concept if everyone has got particularly answers wrong, etc.

Totally disagree. My kids regularly had homework in math and language classes — almost daily. Tons of hkmework (really too much) in the AP social studies classes. Science seemed to come in spurts. Not enough homework in English class I think — when I was in school we did a lot of essays and read a challenging lengthy book almost every month (I remember my freshman English class we read Great Expectations, catcher in the rye, Frankenstein, the Iliad, a Shakespeare play, the great gatsby and at least one more). It seems like even honors English reads maybe two books, both fairly modern so a quicker read, and no real essays or longer writing pieces. I feel for the English teachers are it is really hard to have writing assignments when you’re teaching 150 kids a day, but English is definitely a weak point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:homework is also often only 10% of the grade - and its not looked it, only checked as "completed"

But if kids don't do it, how can they do well in the other 90% of the class? And when is their time in a 45 minute class for start homework? That isn't a lot of time to go over last night's homework, introduce and develop a new concept, and practice it.

You're absolutely correct. Homework is no longer a part of the learning process. They DO sometimes go over it in class, if it is Math etc. and that's where, if there is time, the teacher will re-explain a concept if everyone has got particularly answers wrong, etc.

Totally disagree. My kids regularly had homework in math and language classes — almost daily. Tons of hkmework (really too much) in the AP social studies classes. Science seemed to come in spurts. Not enough homework in English class I think — when I was in school we did a lot of essays and read a challenging lengthy book almost every month (I remember my freshman English class we read Great Expectations, catcher in the rye, Frankenstein, the Iliad, a Shakespeare play, the great gatsby and at least one more). It seems like even honors English reads maybe two books, both fairly modern so a quicker read, and no real essays or longer writing pieces. I feel for the English teachers are it is really hard to have writing assignments when you’re teaching 150 kids a day, but English is definitely a weak point.

You are probably at a different school. We had math homework 1-2 days a week last year for precal. English was a joke with two books. End of year was a movie, they did not even get a copy of the book.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:homework is also often only 10% of the grade - and its not looked it, only checked as "completed"

But if kids don't do it, how can they do well in the other 90% of the class? And when is their time in a 45 minute class for start homework? That isn't a lot of time to go over last night's homework, introduce and develop a new concept, and practice it.

You're absolutely correct. Homework is no longer a part of the learning process. They DO sometimes go over it in class, if it is Math etc. and that's where, if there is time, the teacher will re-explain a concept if everyone has got particularly answers wrong, etc.

Totally disagree. My kids regularly had homework in math and language classes — almost daily. Tons of hkmework (really too much) in the AP social studies classes. Science seemed to come in spurts. Not enough homework in English class I think — when I was in school we did a lot of essays and read a challenging lengthy book almost every month (I remember my freshman English class we read Great Expectations, catcher in the rye, Frankenstein, the Iliad, a Shakespeare play, the great gatsby and at least one more). It seems like even honors English reads maybe two books, both fairly modern so a quicker read, and no real essays or longer writing pieces. I feel for the English teachers are it is really hard to have writing assignments when you’re teaching 150 kids a day, but English is definitely a weak point.

You are probably at a different school. We had math homework 1-2 days a week last year for precal. English was a joke with two books. End of year was a movie, they did not even get a copy of the book.

AP giv. Was the best class with note taking, weekly quizzes and other assignments. The teacher was strict, but accessible and taught the kids so much including how to take notes with weekly checks and test taking.

[Anonymous]

So sad how few kids are taking fun classes like art and theater