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[quote=Anonymous]9th grade parent here.

At our MS, each of the 8th grade teachers made a recommendation for what kids should take and parents made the final call.  The challenge is that the teachers gave the recommendation directly to the kid so as a parent, it was a lot of Q&A to figure out what the situation was.

One important consideration-- the typical 'sequence' of courses varies somewhat across MCPS schools.  For instance, at our school, high achieving science students take chem in year 1 and both bio and AP physics in year 2.  The MS science teacher told as much to the kid-- I didn't really understand why but went along with it (and am glad that we did, because at the time I didn't know that kids could skip Honors bio and go straight to AP bio as a sophomore-- so this sequence opens up an option you wouldn't have if taking bio as freshman).

At our school, the really BIG question was Honors US History or AP US History.  A LOT of kids who had signed up for AP and transferred back to Honors in the first 6 weeks because of the AP workload--so many wanted to transfer out that they had a very hard time finding Honors courses to put them into so kids were sort of racing to the counselor's office.  (And a lot--I think about 25% of freshman class-- stayed in AP).

But different high schools have different sequences (many recommend AP US Govt in freshman year, which I understand to have a much lower time commitment).  So while DCUM can help you sort through options once you know what they are, make sure you are hearing what the options are from the MS teachers/counselors.[/quote]

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