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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hear me out. Several teachers have told me these kids are only taught 50-60% of the material compared to the equivalent Honors-Advanced-AP course. Obviously Honors-Advanced-AP courses are weighed, but a "regular" course kid can get a report card full of A's and B's. Gullible parents assume their kid is bright, but the kid is shaping up to be years behind their peers in the Honors-Advanced-AP courses.

[b]Remember when Honors-Advanced-AP courses were called "COLLEGE TRACK"[/b]?

Going further, this seems like a long-con that tricks naive parents into sending their kids away to college, when they're severely unprepared. Seems an easy way of waking both kids and parents up would be to only give these kids B's, at best.[/quote]

No, but then I'm [i]really[/i] old.  When dinosaurs roamed the earth and I went to HS, (a gigantic suburban HS with over 2,000 students), many students were considered to be on the college track.  It had to do with which progression of courses you took (i.e., into to Chem/Physics as a Frosh, Biology as a Soph, Chem as a Jr, and Physics as a Sr).  The top 10% or so of us were invited to be in the Honors versions of the courses, and we got bumps on our GPAs as a result (an "A" in regular Biology was a 4.0, whereas an "A" in Honors Biology was worth 4.2).

The point is that the Honors designation was for an invitation-only version of the class, so that serious students (nerds like me) could be with our fellow nerds and have more serious discussions and fewer distractions.  That doesn't mean that everyone else in the school, taking those courses, wasn't expected to be on a college track.

They were - in some cases - less "talented" (which I think is less precocial academic learners, but quite possibly more adept social learners), but some of them also had other competing interests.  I gave up cheerleading because "Honors PE" (required for cheerleaders) took place at the same time as "Honors Spanish 3-4."

Don't assume that someone who isn't taking and Honors/AP/IB course isn't serious about college.  They may very well be balancing priorities that differ from yours.[/quote]

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