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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How is rigor not there in high school? They mainly take APs or honors classes that prepare them for the APs. The classmates who can’t read at grade level have all been comped out. They still have a longer academic day with an extra class in comparison to other schools.[/quote]

Some examples 
- only offer AP physics algebra based
- lose a class senior year to college counseling 
- only attend school two trimesters senior year so lose opportunity to take AP classes senior year unless opt into it and I'm not even sure that you could opt in
- spend two years in calculus because math sequence has both AB and BC calc
- AP classes means teaching stops mid-April
- kids at other schools are taking the same number of APs and more and they have more variety.

I think the cohort of students is solid because of the comps requirements but I don't know that means it's particularly strong, I think it's still a mix of skill levels.

They have 7 classes in HS. I don't think that means there's an extra class compared to other schools.

I'm sure this comes off as I'm complaining or denigrating the school. I'm thankful it exists and is an option. I do think that there is a misunderstanding of it at the high school level.
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