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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I strongly suggest joining an academy - any academy.  [b]Increasingly the school is limiting various electives to only students in the academy, which can make it really difficult to fill up 8 credits each year because you run out of electives.  Unfortunately, it’s very limiting for someone who does not have a strong interest or changes their focus area while in high school but that is the current tradeoff.[/b]  My kid decided Junior year that he was interested in finance but it was too late and he was not permitted to take any of the finance electives, which was pretty frustrating.   For STEM kids, both the engineering and IT academies are great and have really fun extracurricular associated with them if that is of interest.  [/quote]

I think it’s great that the academies exist and meet the needs of interested students. But neither of my kids joined one, and neither of them have experienced what you describe above. None of the academies’ topics interested them, so their existence was barely on their radar. All electives they’ve wanted to take have been available to them.

So my advice to students would be to consider joining an academy if there’s a topic that interests them, but there’s no need to force yourself into one.[/quote]

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