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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, it's wrong and it happens often, in all high schools.

My kid chose chemistry this year with the understanding that she could continue on to AP Chem next year, and last week the counselor emailed to say that there wasn't enough room and she didn't have priority for the AP class, not being a senior. It completely sucks, because since it's a double period STEM AP, it means she needs to rework her schedule, because a lot of courses require prerequisites and some APs are double periods and it's just damn hard to make it all fit in 4 years of high school.

I sent a strongly-worded email to the Principal, Assistant Principal, STEM coordinator and counselor, not in the expectation that they would change anything, but to let them know  that they're not making kids' lives any easier. I know most of the administration doesn't care, because they're dealing with serial absences and pushing kids to graduate who don't even have the most basic understanding of reading and math... and so the kids who actually have ambitions and tried to plan are just expected to roll with the punches. But at least they were forced to see my point of view for 2 minutes.

So now there are kids like mine who want to take that one AP Chem class but can't, and not enough students who want to fill the 3 AP Bio classes the school created. Surely the school could tell what students would choose based on the classes they'd already taken? And maybe have kids fill out an interest survey at some point???

Such incompetence.
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