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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids would have been Churchill HS students.  We pulled the first one out after middle school and the second one never attended an MCPS school.  What we learned by accident is that the private schools they attend offer much fewer AP courses that start in junior year.  So the pressure on the kids is much less and they are still surrounded by strong academic students.  My oldest got into and just graduated from a top 20 university.  My youngest just completed 9th grade and next year will take 3 honors classes...no APs offered in 10th.  The school she attends is small and sent 25% of their graduates to top 20 schools last year.

In my opinion, private school pays off big in this area...unless you have a kid that thrives on being stressed out.  I don't know too many kids like that.

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How would you possibly know the stress levels of mcps HS kids when yours did not attend?  My MCPS kid is also at a t20 school and did not find his very stressful.[/quote]

Read it right here. Also my oldest has many MCPS friends. The pressure to take tons of APs is over the top. [/quote]

AP classes should not be that stressful to take.  They have sort of morphed into standard hs
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AP has expanded , not morphed. New classes like CS Principles and Precalculus, and wider deployment of old courses like Physics 1/B, are high school level. [/quote]

How does CS principles compare with the Intro CS class that MCPS offers? My kid is not into CS so was avoiding AP for fear it would be too advanced. But if it really is a HS level course, maybe it makes sense to take that...[/quote]

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